How To Install swappy on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swappy on Fedora 34.
What is swappy
A Wayland native snapshot and editor tool, inspired by Snappy on macOS. Works great with grim, slurp and sway. But can easily work with other screen copy tools that can output a final PNG image to stdout eg
We can use yum or dnf to install swappy on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swappy.
Install swappy 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 swappy using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swappy
Install swappy 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 swappy using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install swappy
How To Uninstall swappy on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the swappy package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swappy
swappy Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/swappy
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/99507e50ef06f57fd13e3c5409816018d48981
/usr/share/applications/swappy.desktop
/usr/share/doc/swappy
/usr/share/doc/swappy/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/swappy.svg
/usr/share/licenses/swappy
/usr/share/licenses/swappy/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/swappy.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/swappy.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/swappy.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/swappy.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/swappy.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swappy on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
