How To Install cage on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cage in Fedora 36. cage is A Wayland kiosk

Introduction

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

What is cage

This is Cage, a Wayland kiosk. A kiosk runs a single, maximized application. This README is only relevant for development resources and instructions. For a description of Cage and installation instructions for end-users, please see its project page and the Wiki.

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

Install cage 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 cage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cage

Install cage 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 cage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cage

How To Uninstall cage on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove cage

cage Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/cage
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f
/usr/lib/.build-id/9f/202b21475fa6ee69c065c392669993b1329ec6
/usr/share/doc/cage
/usr/share/doc/cage/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/cage
/usr/share/licenses/cage/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/cage.1.gz

References

Summary

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