How To Install mako on Fedora 34

mako is Lightweight Wayland notification daemon

Introduction

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

What is mako

mako is a lightweight notification daemon for Wayland compositors that support the layer-shell protocol.

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

Install mako 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 mako using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mako

Install mako 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 mako using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mako

How To Uninstall mako on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove mako

mako Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/mako
/usr/bin/makoctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/490c19549722ece6b64ddd56176ed7998f4575
/usr/lib/systemd/user/mako.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/fr.emersion.mako.service
/usr/share/doc/mako
/usr/share/doc/mako/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/mako.fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/makoctl.fish
/usr/share/licenses/mako
/usr/share/licenses/mako/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/mako.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/makoctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mako.5.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_mako
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_makoctl
/usr/bin/mako
/usr/bin/makoctl
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4
/usr/lib/.build-id/e4/44573d1c9890b69c0096327ed230d9209fc648
/usr/lib/systemd/user/mako.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/fr.emersion.mako.service
/usr/share/doc/mako
/usr/share/doc/mako/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/mako
/usr/share/licenses/mako/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/mako.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/makoctl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mako.5.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_mako
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_makoctl

References

Summary

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