How To Install swaybg on Fedora 34

swaybg is Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors

Introduction

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

What is swaybg

Wallpaper tool for Wayland compositors.

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

Install swaybg 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 swaybg using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install swaybg

Install swaybg 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 swaybg using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install swaybg

How To Uninstall swaybg on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove swaybg

swaybg Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/swaybg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f
/usr/lib/.build-id/3f/1ebf590c6cc4fb90964926eb7dfd8d1042f069
/usr/share/doc/swaybg
/usr/share/doc/swaybg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/swaybg
/usr/share/licenses/swaybg/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/swaybg.1.gz
/usr/bin/swaybg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/84
/usr/lib/.build-id/84/9f4f4e5aa310438a5de6f356ac3b724bf39ac7
/usr/share/doc/swaybg
/usr/share/doc/swaybg/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/swaybg
/usr/share/licenses/swaybg/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/swaybg.1.gz

References

Summary

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