How To Install waybar on Fedora 34
waybar is Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install waybar on Fedora 34.
What is waybar
Highly customizable Wayland bar for Sway and Wlroots based compositors.
We can use yum or dnf to install waybar on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install waybar.
Install waybar 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 waybar using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install waybar
Install waybar 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 waybar using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install waybar
How To Uninstall waybar on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the waybar package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove waybar
waybar Package Contents on Fedora 34
/etc/xdg/waybar
/etc/xdg/waybar/config
/etc/xdg/waybar/style.css
/usr/bin/waybar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b
/usr/lib/.build-id/7b/bd09255726cea39447b650981ce2c1b4f4c570
/usr/share/doc/waybar
/usr/share/doc/waybar/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/waybar
/usr/share/licenses/waybar/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-backlight.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-battery.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-bluetooth.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-clock.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-cpu.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-custom.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-disk.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-idle-inhibitor.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-memory.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-mpd.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-network.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-pulseaudio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-river-tags.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sndio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-states.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-mode.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-window.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-workspaces.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-temperature.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-tray.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-wlr-taskbar.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar.5.gz
/etc/xdg/waybar
/etc/xdg/waybar/config
/etc/xdg/waybar/style.css
/usr/bin/waybar
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a
/usr/lib/.build-id/8a/e0c5d4360ea426186035ff0f990667c1367634
/usr/share/doc/waybar
/usr/share/doc/waybar/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/waybar
/usr/share/licenses/waybar/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-backlight.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-battery.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-bluetooth.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-clock.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-cpu.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-custom.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-disk.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-idle-inhibitor.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-memory.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-mpd.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-network.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-pulseaudio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-river-tags.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sndio.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-states.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-language.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-mode.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-window.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-sway-workspaces.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-temperature.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-tray.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar-wlr-taskbar.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/waybar.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install waybar on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.