How To Install phoc on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install phoc in Fedora 36. phoc is Display compositor designed for phones

Introduction

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

What is `phoc`

Phoc is a wlroots based Phone compositor as used on the Librem5. Phoc is pronounced like the English word fog.

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

Install phoc 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 phoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install phoc

Install phoc 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 phoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install phoc

How To Uninstall phoc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove phoc

phoc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/phoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/ed4ddc94bb17d60230cebcc0d53315f93597c4
/usr/share/doc/phoc
/usr/share/doc/phoc/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/sm.puri.phoc.gschema.xml
/usr/share/licenses/phoc
/usr/share/licenses/phoc/COPYING

References

phoc website

Summary

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