How To Install wlsunset on Fedora 34

wlsunset is Day/night gamma adjustments for Sway

Introduction

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

What is wlsunset

Day/night gamma adjustments for Sway and other Wayland compositors supporting wlr-gamma-control-unstable-v1.

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

Install wlsunset 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 wlsunset using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wlsunset

Install wlsunset 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 wlsunset using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wlsunset

How To Uninstall wlsunset on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove wlsunset

wlsunset Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/wlsunset
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/25
/usr/lib/.build-id/25/0903d15967a04d0d91fae8c9a6b9f157ec3037
/usr/share/doc/wlsunset
/usr/share/doc/wlsunset/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wlsunset
/usr/share/licenses/wlsunset/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wlsunset.1.gz
/usr/bin/wlsunset
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/c59cd80869c9724f6ab976c64e9f39c7f4e35c
/usr/share/doc/wlsunset
/usr/share/doc/wlsunset/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wlsunset
/usr/share/licenses/wlsunset/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/wlsunset.1.gz

References

Summary

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