How To Install wayland-utils on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-utils in Fedora 36. wayland-utils is Wayland utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wayland-utils on Fedora 36.

What is `wayland-utils`

wayland-utils contains wayland-info, a standalone version of weston-info, a utility for displaying information about the Wayland protocols supported by the Wayland compositor. wayland-info also provides additional information for a subset of Wayland protocols it knows about, namely Linux DMABUF, presentation time, tablet and XDG output protocols.

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

Install wayland-utils 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 wayland-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wayland-utils

Install wayland-utils 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 wayland-utils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wayland-utils

How To Uninstall wayland-utils on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the wayland-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wayland-utils

wayland-utils Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wayland-info
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/66
/usr/lib/.build-id/66/513ad8d1c63717a410e2b3116d34d01d8a5b91
/usr/share/doc/wayland-utils
/usr/share/doc/wayland-utils/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-utils
/usr/share/licenses/wayland-utils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/wayland-info.1.gz

References

wayland-utils website

Summary

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