How To Install phoc on Fedora 34

phoc is Display compositor designed for phones

Introduction

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

What is phoc

Phoc is a wlroots based Phone compositor as used on the Librem5. Phoc is pronounced like the English word fog.

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

Install phoc 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 phoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install phoc

Install phoc 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 phoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install phoc

How To Uninstall phoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove phoc

phoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/phoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/357d19f2d5c5451ca59048e27b85318d4bea7d
/usr/share/doc/phoc
/usr/share/doc/phoc/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/sm.puri.phoc.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/phoc
/usr/share/licenses/phoc/COPYING

References

Summary

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