How To Install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-skincurses in Fedora 36. vdr-skincurses is Shell window skin plugin for VDR

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36.

What is `vdr-skincurses`

The skincurses plugin implements a VDR skin that works in a shell window, using only plain text output.

We can use yum or dnf to install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vdr-skincurses.

Install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vdr-skincurses using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vdr-skincurses

Install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install vdr-skincurses using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vdr-skincurses

How To Uninstall vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the vdr-skincurses package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove vdr-skincurses

vdr-skincurses Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/vdr-plugins.d/skincurses.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/30d0130eb5ceede04012440f05d49d7d557e7a
/usr/lib64/vdr/libvdr-skincurses.so.2.6.1
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skincurses
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skincurses/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skincurses/README
/usr/share/licenses/vdr-skincurses
/usr/share/licenses/vdr-skincurses/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/et_EE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi_FI/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt_LT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk_SK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skincurses.mo

References

vdr-skincurses website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-skincurses on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).