How To Install lightdm on Fedora 34

lightdm is A cross-desktop Display Manager A cross-desktop Display Manager

Introduction

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

What is `lightdm`

Lightdm is a display manager that * Is cross-desktop - supports different desktops * Supports different display technologies * Is lightweight - low memory usage and fast performance lightdm 1.30.0 14.fc34 x86_64 223 k lightdm-1.30.0-14.fc34.src.rpm fedora A cross-desktop Display Manager https (LGPLv2 or LGPLv3) and GPLv3+ Lightdm is a display manager that * Is cross-desktop - supports different desktops * Supports different display technologies * Is lightweight - low memory usage and fast performance

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

Install lightdm 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 lightdm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install lightdm

Install lightdm 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 lightdm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install lightdm

How To Uninstall lightdm on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove lightdm

lightdm Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/lightdm
/etc/lightdm/keys.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
/etc/lightdm/users.conf
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/lightdm
/etc/pam.d/lightdm
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter
/run/lightdm
/usr/bin/dm-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/04933f016b926e5a2d90a8bf766e8d7ae18df6
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e
/usr/lib/.build-id/3e/7162f3e4b2722f208ae8cb172ad38368ec8888
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d2/684d7374aca121feb671061aa9e617aab0412f
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/LightDM-1.typelib
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lightdm.conf
/usr/libexec/lightdm-guest-session
/usr/sbin/lightdm
/usr/share/accountsservice
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.xml
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dm-tool
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/lightdm
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf
/usr/share/doc/lightdm
/usr/share/doc/lightdm/NEWS
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/autologin.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/config.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/default-greeter.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/default-session.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/diagnostics.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/guest.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/index.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/legal.xml
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/local-sessions.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/remote-sessions.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/seat.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/standard-authentication.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/user-list.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/user-switching.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/vnc.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/write-greeter.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/xdmcp.page
/usr/share/licenses/lightdm
/usr/share/licenses/lightdm/COPYING.GPL3
/usr/share/lightdm
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-backup-logs.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-guest.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-minimum-vt.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-run-directory.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-session-wrapper.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-user-authority-in-system-dir.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-xserver-command.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mhr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sc/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sd/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/shn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/wae/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/dm-tool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lightdm.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/lightdm.rules
/usr/share/xgreeters
/var/cache/lightdm
/var/lib/lightdm
/var/lib/lightdm-data
/var/log/lightdm
/etc/lightdm
/etc/lightdm/keys.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf
/etc/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
/etc/lightdm/users.conf
/etc/logrotate.d
/etc/logrotate.d/lightdm
/etc/pam.d/lightdm
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/lightdm-greeter
/run/lightdm
/usr/bin/dm-tool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/2f048b4072330c577ea226b5fe65c6330ec1ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1
/usr/lib/.build-id/d1/a0887c36286d13997c79c4846b15c337181b27
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/cd8ed11b34228c3616eea2d18c3b68eb7d93f5
/usr/lib/systemd/system/lightdm.service
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/lightdm.conf
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/LightDM-1.typelib
/usr/libexec/lightdm-guest-session
/usr/sbin/lightdm
/usr/share/accountsservice
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces
/usr/share/accountsservice/interfaces/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.xml
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dm-tool
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/lightdm
/usr/share/dbus-1/interfaces/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.xml
/usr/share/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf
/usr/share/doc/lightdm
/usr/share/doc/lightdm/NEWS
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/autologin.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/config.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/default-greeter.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/default-session.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/diagnostics.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/guest.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/index.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/legal.xml
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/local-sessions.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/remote-sessions.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/seat.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/standard-authentication.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/user-list.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/user-switching.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/vnc.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/write-greeter.page
/usr/share/help/C/lightdm/xdmcp.page
/usr/share/licenses/lightdm
/usr/share/licenses/lightdm/COPYING.GPL3
/usr/share/lightdm
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-backup-logs.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-disable-guest.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-minimum-vt.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-run-directory.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-session-wrapper.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-user-authority-in-system-dir.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/lightdm.conf.d/50-xserver-command.conf
/usr/share/lightdm/remote-sessions
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ckb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fo/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ia/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mhr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sc/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sd/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/shn/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tl/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/wae/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/lightdm.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/dm-tool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/lightdm.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.AccountsService.policy
/usr/share/polkit-1/rules.d/lightdm.rules
/usr/share/xgreeters
/var/cache/lightdm
/var/lib/lightdm
/var/lib/lightdm-data
/var/log/lightdm

References

[lightdm website](https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/ https://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/LightDM/)

Summary

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