How To Install swaylock on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaylock on Fedora 34.
What is swaylock
swaylock is a screen locking utility for Wayland compositors.
We can use yum or dnf to install swaylock on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install swaylock.
Install swaylock 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 swaylock using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install swaylock
Install swaylock 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 swaylock using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install swaylock
How To Uninstall swaylock on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the swaylock package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove swaylock
swaylock Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/pam.d/swaylock
/usr/bin/swaylock
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/ab8de9ec4eac7aa60976b27af59c0dc0c50da9
/usr/share/bash-completion
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/swaylock
/usr/share/doc/swaylock
/usr/share/doc/swaylock/README.md
/usr/share/fish
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d
/usr/share/fish/vendor_completions.d/swaylock.fish
/usr/share/licenses/swaylock
/usr/share/licenses/swaylock/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/swaylock.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_swaylock
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install swaylock on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
