How To Install xautomation on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xautomation
on Fedora 36.
What is xautomation
Control X from the command line for scripts, and do “visual scraping” to find things on the screen. The control interface allows mouse movement, clicking, button up/down, key up/down, etc, and uses the XTest extension so you don’t have the annoying problems that xse has when apps ignore sent events. The visgrep program find images inside of images and reports the coordinates, allowing programs to find buttons, etc, on the screen to click on.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xautomation
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xautomation.
Install xautomation 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 xautomation
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xautomation
Install xautomation 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 xautomation
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xautomation
How To Uninstall xautomation on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the xautomation
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xautomation
xautomation Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/pat2ppm
/usr/bin/patextract
/usr/bin/png2pat
/usr/bin/rgb2pat
/usr/bin/visgrep
/usr/bin/xmousepos
/usr/bin/xte
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/b62e8347ee0a0a42d1332cc5148365587fd6d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/30
/usr/lib/.build-id/30/569b8bbae1f5492e6870dfca17de8aeba342c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/42
/usr/lib/.build-id/42/6ee9a66660a170be90b152c21172bd210c1586
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/27fa93e1c48a1269efbc5b7e48931f18fee4fb
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8
/usr/lib/.build-id/c8/78ec22658ce0f9721fe284230f9c744ef13818
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec
/usr/lib/.build-id/ec/5ef27ecb406c951c2fb38df3acc67128096808
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1
/usr/lib/.build-id/f1/57d31cc68b1702d744ca8ecf02bab665905576
/usr/share/doc/xautomation
/usr/share/doc/xautomation/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/xautomation/README
/usr/share/licenses/xautomation
/usr/share/licenses/xautomation/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/pat2ppm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/patextract.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/png2pat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rgb2pat.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/visgrep.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xmousepos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xte.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/xautomation.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xautomation
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).