How To Install vdr-skinelchihd on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr-skinelchihd in Fedora 36. vdr-skinelchihd is A Elchi based skin with True Color support for the Video Disc Recorder

Introduction

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

What is `vdr-skinelchihd`

This plugin for Klaus Schmidinger’s Video Disc Recorder VDR adds the “Elchi HD” skin. It is based on the Elchi skin with major re-factoring to make use of newer VDR features like True Color support.

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

Install vdr-skinelchihd 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-skinelchihd using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vdr-skinelchihd

Install vdr-skinelchihd 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-skinelchihd using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vdr-skinelchihd

How To Uninstall vdr-skinelchihd on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vdr-skinelchihd

vdr-skinelchihd Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/sysconfig/vdr-plugins.d/skinelchihd.conf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0
/usr/lib/.build-id/c0/d66d3a31544913ee0b83bc13544e852cacae77
/usr/lib64/vdr/libvdr-skinelchihd.so.2.6.1
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skinelchihd
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skinelchihd/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/vdr-skinelchihd/README
/usr/share/licenses/vdr-skinelchihd
/usr/share/licenses/vdr-skinelchihd/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skinelchihd.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skinelchihd.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr-skinelchihd.mo
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/ElchiHD-Moose.theme
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/ElchiHD-default.theme

References

vdr-skinelchihd website

Summary

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