How To Install hikari on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install hikari on Fedora 34.
What is hikari
Hikari is a stacking Wayland compositor with additional tiling capabilities, it is heavily inspired by the Calm Window manager (cwm(1)). Its core concepts are views, groups, sheets and the workspace.
We can use yum or dnf to install hikari on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install hikari.
Install hikari 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 hikari using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install hikari
Install hikari 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 hikari using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install hikari
How To Uninstall hikari on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the hikari package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove hikari
hikari Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/hikari
/etc/hikari/hikari.conf
/etc/pam.d/hikari-unlocker
/usr/bin/hikari
/usr/bin/hikari-unlocker
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/82
/usr/lib/.build-id/82/6aca3645cf543ff6b571c55f0a9aabd00344c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b
/usr/lib/.build-id/9b/295c714548dad167709c168a851a9eb640d1c7
/usr/share/backgrounds/hikari
/usr/share/backgrounds/hikari/hikari_wallpaper.png
/usr/share/doc/hikari
/usr/share/doc/hikari/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/hikari
/usr/share/licenses/hikari/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/hikari.1.gz
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/hikari.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install hikari on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
