How To Install yad on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install yad in Fedora 36. yad is Display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

Introduction

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

What is `yad`

Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more.

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

Install yad 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 yad using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yad

Install yad 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 yad using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install yad

How To Uninstall yad on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove yad

yad Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/yad
/usr/bin/yad-icon-browser
/usr/bin/yad-tools
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/65c6d18a17925f780b03c0e093ef339b62c92a
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c
/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/dbe79365861bbf4fc72e540a2eb225bdaa0eb5
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5a/e654c46fae1a2076fb7d1da630c5d5e343c3d7
/usr/share/aclocal/yad.m4
/usr/share/applications/yad-icon-browser.desktop
/usr/share/doc/yad
/usr/share/doc/yad/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yad/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/yad/README.md
/usr/share/doc/yad/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/yad/TODO
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/yad.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/96x96/apps/yad.png
/usr/share/licenses/yad
/usr/share/licenses/yad/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/yad.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/yad-tools.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/yad.1.gz

References

yad website

Summary

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