How to Install and Uninstall fbterm Package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Last updated: February 02,2025

1. Install "fbterm" package

Learn how to install fbterm on openSuSE Tumbleweed


    
        
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                sudo zypper refresh
            
                    
    
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                sudo zypper install
            
                        
                fbterm
            
                    
    
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2. Uninstall "fbterm" package

Please follow the instructions below to uninstall fbterm on openSuSE Tumbleweed:


    
        
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                sudo zypper remove
            
                        
                fbterm
            
                    
    
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3. Information about the fbterm package on openSuSE Tumbleweed

Information for package fbterm:
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Repository : openSUSE-Tumbleweed-Oss
Name : fbterm
Version : 1.8-2.11
Arch : x86_64
Vendor : openSUSE
Installed Size : 138.0 KiB
Installed : No
Status : not installed
Source package : fbterm-1.8-2.11.src
Upstream URL : https://github.com/sfzhi/fbterm
Summary : A fast framebuffer-based terminal emulator
Description :
FbTerm is a fast terminal emulator for linux with frame buffer device.
Features include:
* mostly as fast as terminal of linux kernel while accelerated scrolling
is enabled on framebuffer device
* select font with fontconfig and draw text with freetype2, same as
Qt/Gtk+ based GUI apps
* dynamicly create/destroy up to 10 windows initially running default shell
* record scrollback history for every window
* auto-detect current locale and convert text encoding, support double
width scripts like Chinese, Japanese etc
* switch between configurable additional text encodings with hot keys
on the fly
* copy/past selected text between windows with mouse when gpm server is
running
* change the orientation of screen display, a.k.a. screen rotation
* lightweight input method framework with client-server architecture