How To Install goverlay on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install goverlay on Fedora 36.
What is goverlay
GOverlay is an open source project aimed to create a Graphical UI to manage Vulkan/OpenGL overlays. It is still in early development, so it lacks a lot of features. This project was only possible thanks to the other maintainers and contributors that have done the hard work. I am just a Network Engineer that really likes Linux and Gaming.
We can use yum or dnf to install goverlay on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install goverlay.
Install goverlay 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 goverlay using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install goverlay
Install goverlay 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 goverlay using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install goverlay
How To Uninstall goverlay on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the goverlay package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove goverlay
goverlay Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/goverlay
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a
/usr/lib/.build-id/6a/7f7296bae7962015606586ecee3d10335eed8d
/usr/libexec/goverlay
/usr/share/applications/io.github.benjamimgois.goverlay.desktop
/usr/share/doc/goverlay
/usr/share/doc/goverlay/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/goverlay.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/goverlay.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/goverlay.png
/usr/share/licenses/goverlay
/usr/share/licenses/goverlay/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/goverlay.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/io.github.benjamimgois.goverlay.metainfo.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install goverlay on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
