How To Install cage on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install cage on Fedora 34.
What is cage
This is Cage, a Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application. This README is only relevant for development resources and instructions. For a description of Cage and installation instructions for end-users, please see its project page and the Wiki.
We can use yum or dnf to install cage on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cage.
Install cage on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cage using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install cage
Install cage on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install cage using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install cage
How To Uninstall cage on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the cage package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove cage
cage Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/cage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b0/7e68432a701e7e4b124185335843c5f4296fee
/usr/share/doc/cage
/usr/share/doc/cage/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cage
/usr/share/licenses/cage/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/cage.1.gz
/usr/bin/cage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/50a5490629817c79fd117b048de90b7923ac3c
/usr/share/doc/cage
/usr/share/doc/cage/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cage
/usr/share/licenses/cage/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/cage.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install cage on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.