How To Install slock on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slock on Fedora 34.
What is slock
This is the simplest X screen locker we are aware of. It is stable and quite a lot people in this community are using it every day when they are out with friends or fetching some food from the local pub.
We can use yum or dnf to install slock on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slock.
Install slock 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 slock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slock
Install slock 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 slock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slock
How To Uninstall slock on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the slock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slock
slock Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/slock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/5e9474f0de12b849cb1fea86a30b19243d9daf
/usr/share/doc/slock
/usr/share/doc/slock/README
/usr/share/licenses/slock
/usr/share/licenses/slock/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/slock.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slock on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.