How To Install cairo-dock on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-dock in Fedora 36. cairo-dock is Light eye-candy fully themable animated dock

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cairo-dock on Fedora 36.

What is `cairo-dock`

This is a metapackage for installing all default packages related to cairo-dock.

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

Install cairo-dock 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 cairo-dock using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cairo-dock

Install cairo-dock 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 cairo-dock using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cairo-dock

How To Uninstall cairo-dock on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the cairo-dock package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cairo-dock

cairo-dock Package Contents on Fedora 36

References

cairo-dock website

Summary

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