How To Install waypipe on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install waypipe
on Fedora 34.
What is waypipe
Waypipe is a proxy for Wayland clients. It forwards Wayland messages and serializes changes to shared memory buffers over a single socket. This makes application forwarding similar to “ssh -X” feasible.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install waypipe
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install waypipe.
Install waypipe 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 waypipe
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install waypipe
Install waypipe 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 waypipe
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install waypipe
How To Uninstall waypipe on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the waypipe
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove waypipe
waypipe Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/waypipe
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/3a00512de824f3ee38695bf22dabde7db6ed91
/usr/share/doc/waypipe
/usr/share/doc/waypipe/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/waypipe/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/waypipe
/usr/share/licenses/waypipe/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/waypipe.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install waypipe
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.