How To Install vdr on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install vdr in Fedora 36. vdr is Video Disk Recorder

Introduction

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

What is `vdr`

VDR implements a complete digital set-top-box and video recorder. It can work with signals received from satellites (DVB-S) as well as cable (DVB-C) and terrestrial (DVB-T) signals. At least one DVB card is required to run VDR.

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

Install vdr 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 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install vdr

Install vdr 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 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install vdr

How To Uninstall vdr on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove vdr

vdr Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/rwtab.d/vdr
/etc/sudoers.d/vdr
/etc/sysconfig/vdr
/etc/sysconfig/vdr-plugins.d
/etc/vdr
/etc/vdr/camresponses.conf
/etc/vdr/channels.conf
/etc/vdr/commands.conf
/etc/vdr/diseqc.conf
/etc/vdr/keymacros.conf
/etc/vdr/plugins
/etc/vdr/reccmds.conf
/etc/vdr/remote.conf
/etc/vdr/scr.conf
/etc/vdr/setup.conf
/etc/vdr/sources.conf
/etc/vdr/svdrphosts.conf
/etc/vdr/timercmds.conf
/etc/vdr/timers.conf
/run/vdr
/run/vdr/next-timer
/usr/bin/epg2html
/usr/bin/svdrpsend
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea
/usr/lib/.build-id/ea/bf4990f261822fdf8e6105ea4e3278d7a2730c
/usr/lib/systemd/system/vdr.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/vdr.conf
/usr/lib64/vdr
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-check-setup
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-moveto.sh
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-set-wakeup
/usr/lib64/vdr/bin/vdr-shutdown.sh
/usr/sbin/runvdr
/usr/sbin/vdr
/usr/share/doc/vdr
/usr/share/doc/vdr/CHANGES.package.old
/usr/share/doc/vdr/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/vdr/HISTORY
/usr/share/doc/vdr/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/vdr/MANUAL
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README.i18n
/usr/share/doc/vdr/README.package
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.2.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.4.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-1.6.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.0.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.2.0
/usr/share/doc/vdr/UPDATE-2.4.0
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca_ES/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs_CZ/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/da_DK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/el_GR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/es_ES/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/et_EE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi_FI/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr_FR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr_HR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu_HU/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/it_IT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt_LT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk_MK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl_NL/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn_NO/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl_PL/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_PT/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro_RO/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru_RU/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk_SK/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl_SI/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr_RS/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv_SE/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr_TR/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk_UA/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/vdr.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/svdrpsend.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vdr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/vdr.5.gz
/usr/share/vdr
/usr/share/vdr/logos
/usr/share/vdr/plugins
/var/cache/vdr
/var/cache/vdr/epg.data
/var/lib/vdr
/var/lib/vdr/data
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/classic-default.theme
/var/lib/vdr/data/themes/sttng-default.theme
/var/lib/vdr/video
/var/lib/vdr/video/.update

References

vdr website

Summary

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