How To Install kdm on Fedora 34
kdm is The KDE login manager
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdm on Fedora 34.
What is kdm
KDM provides the graphical login screen, shown shortly after boot up, log out, and when user switching.
We can use yum or dnf to install kdm on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install kdm.
Install kdm 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 kdm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install kdm
Install kdm 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 kdm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install kdm
How To Uninstall kdm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the kdm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove kdm
kdm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/genkdmconf
/usr/bin/kdm
/usr/bin/kdmctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/c428e2bbec152dddc5260c52ab9fd8902ea691
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/b8354fc7efed9d842b90b2d30b702e40cb082e
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/85ada249dc196f967fa11df4b435547d2ab848
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/e48649d106560e93b107ff4bd1d6ebd03e0274
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/84f651ce3713eb7e5e7e621c04716473a11450
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/54fedf0f0e1331d7236916d87ae747481eeb55
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/7e90b2ffa06c9b8392f87676f3d2079a41c2ff
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/9c9618ad3b922662d99d4b1dd3aecc3f78d2ec
/usr/lib64/kde4/kcm_kdm.so
/usr/libexec/kde4/kcmkdmhelper
/usr/libexec/kde4/kdm_config
/usr/libexec/kde4/kdm_greet
/usr/libexec/kde4/krootimage
/usr/share/config/background.knsrc
/usr/share/config/kdm.knsrc
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkdm.service
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/common
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/index.cache.bz2
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/index.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/kdmrc-ref.docbook
/usr/share/doc/HTML/en/kdm/theme-ref.docbook
/usr/share/kde4/apps/doc
/usr/share/kde4/apps/doc/kdm
/usr/share/kde4/apps/doc/kdm/README
/usr/share/kde4/apps/doc/kdm/greeter.dtd
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kcontrol
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kcontrol/pics
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kcontrol/pics/anchor.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kcontrol/pics/monitor.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/faces/.default.face.icon
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/fish.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/fish.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/flowers.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/flowers.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/night-rock.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/night-rock.jpg
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/pavement.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/pavement.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/rattan.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/rattan.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/stonewall2.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/stonewall2.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/triangles.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/patterns/triangles.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/kdelogo.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/shutdown.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users/default1.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users/default2.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users/default3.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/pics/users/root1.png
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/programs
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/programs/xearth.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/programs/xglobe.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/programs/xplanet.desktop
/usr/share/kde4/apps/kdm/themes
/usr/share/kde4/services/kdm.desktop
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.kde.kcontrol.kcmkdm.policy
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install kdm on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.