How To Install gamescope on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamescope on Fedora 34.
What is gamescope
gamescope is the micro-compositor optimized for running video games on Wayland.
We can use yum or dnf to install gamescope on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gamescope.
Install gamescope 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 gamescope using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gamescope
Install gamescope 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 gamescope using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gamescope
How To Uninstall gamescope on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the gamescope package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gamescope
gamescope Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/gamescope
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/375e299ed40975bca7cec66c5bcb3babdb3f8d
/usr/share/doc/gamescope
/usr/share/doc/gamescope/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gamescope
/usr/share/licenses/gamescope/LICENSE
/usr/bin/gamescope
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a
/usr/lib/.build-id/3a/4146977df92c27af29d4331bda6f91dec8c278
/usr/share/doc/gamescope
/usr/share/doc/gamescope/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/gamescope
/usr/share/licenses/gamescope/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gamescope on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.