How To Install azote on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote in Fedora 36. azote is Wallpaper and color manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on Fedora 36.

What is `azote`

Azote is a GTK+3 - based picture browser and background setter, as the front-end to the swaybg (sway/Wayland) and feh (X windows) commands. It also includes several color management tools. The program is confirmed to work on sway, i3, Openbox, Fluxbox and dwm window managers, on Arch Linux, Void Linux, Debian and Fedora.

We can use yum or dnf to install azote on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install azote.

Install azote on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install azote using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install azote

Install azote on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install azote using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install azote

How To Uninstall azote on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove azote

azote Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/azote
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote-1.9.3-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote-1.9.3-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote-1.9.3-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote-1.9.3-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote-1.9.3-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/color_tools.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/colorthief.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper1.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper2.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/azote.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/empty.png
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_about.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_all.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_apply.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_az.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_config.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_flip.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_image_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_new.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_old.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_picker.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_refresh.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_split.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/icon_za.svg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/nwg-shell-sgs.png
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/images/squares.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages/README.md
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages/de_DE
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages/en_EN
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages/fr_FR
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/languages/pl_PL
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/plugins.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/azote/tools.py
/usr/share/applications/azote.desktop
/usr/share/azote
/usr/share/azote/azote.svg
/usr/share/azote/indicator_active.png
/usr/share/azote/indicator_attention.png
/usr/share/doc/azote
/usr/share/doc/azote/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/azote
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE-COLORTHIEF

References

azote website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).