How To Install fuzzel on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install fuzzel in Fedora 36. fuzzel is Application launcher for wlroots based Wayland compositors

Introduction

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

What is fuzzel

Fuzzel is a Wayland-native application launcher, similar to rofi’s drun mode. Features * Wayland native * Rofi drun-like mode of operation * dmenu mode where newline separated entries are read from stdin * Emacs key bindings * Icons! * Remembers frequently launched applications

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

Install fuzzel 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 fuzzel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install fuzzel

Install fuzzel 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 fuzzel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install fuzzel

How To Uninstall fuzzel on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove fuzzel

fuzzel Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/fuzzel
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/67683e61c40356ab2cee443f46ba45354b0f99
/usr/share/doc/fuzzel
/usr/share/doc/fuzzel/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/doc/fuzzel/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/fuzzel
/usr/share/licenses/fuzzel/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/fuzzel.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_fuzzel

References

Summary

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