How To Install gammastep on Fedora 34

gammastep is Adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to time of day

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gammastep on Fedora 34.

What is `gammastep`

Gammastep adjusts the color temperature of your screen according to your surroundings. This may help your eyes hurt less if you are working in front of the screen at night. The color temperature is set according to the position of the sun. A different color temperature is set during night and daytime. During twilight and early morning, the color temperature transitions smoothly from night to daytime temperature to allow your eyes to slowly adapt. Gammastep supports wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1 protocol for wlroots-based wayland compositors.

We can use yum or dnf to install gammastep on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gammastep.

Install gammastep 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 gammastep using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gammastep

Install gammastep 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 gammastep using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gammastep

How To Uninstall gammastep on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the gammastep package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gammastep

gammastep Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/gammastep
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/4661615ac6c35f89e85937462b55caac68b03e
/usr/lib/systemd/user/gammastep.service
/usr/share/applications/gammastep.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gammastep
/usr/share/doc/gammastep/README.md
/usr/share/doc/gammastep/gammastep.conf.sample
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/gammastep.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gammastep
/usr/share/licenses/gammastep/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gammastep.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gammastep.1.gz

References

gammastep website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gammastep on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.