How To Install cros-wayland on CentOS 8

cros-wayland is Wayland extras for virtwl in Chromium OS

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-wayland on CentOS 8.

What is cros-wayland

This package provides config files and udev rules to improve the Wayland experience under CrOS.

We can use yum or dnf to install cros-wayland on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cros-wayland.

Install cros-wayland on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cros-wayland using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cros-wayland

Install cros-wayland on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install cros-wayland using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cros-wayland

How To Uninstall cros-wayland on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove cros-wayland

cros-wayland Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/skel/.config/weston.ini
/usr/lib/udev/rules.d/10-cros-virtwl.rules
/usr/share/doc/cros-wayland
/usr/share/doc/cros-wayland/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cros-wayland
/usr/share/licenses/cros-wayland/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cros-wayland on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.