How To Install picom on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install picom on Fedora 34.
What is picom
This is forked from the original Compton because that seems to have become unmaintained. The current battle plan of this fork is to refactor it to make the code possible to maintain, so potential contributors won’t be scared away when they take a look at the code. We also try to fix bugs.
We can use yum or dnf to install picom on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install picom.
Install picom 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 picom using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install picom
Install picom 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 picom using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install picom
How To Uninstall picom on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the picom package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove picom
picom Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/compton
/usr/bin/compton-trans
/usr/bin/picom
/usr/bin/picom-trans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1
/usr/lib/.build-id/e1/63d5a369604e8cb1e07e8a52740293c12f6a08
/usr/share/applications/compton.desktop
/usr/share/applications/picom.desktop
/usr/share/doc/picom
/usr/share/doc/picom/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/picom/README.md
/usr/share/doc/picom/picom.sample.conf
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/compton.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/compton.svg
/usr/share/licenses/picom
/usr/share/licenses/picom/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/picom/MIT
/usr/share/licenses/picom/MPL-2.0
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install picom on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.