How To Install sddm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install sddm in Fedora 36. sddm is QML based desktop and login manager

Introduction

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

What is sddm

SDDM is a modern graphical display manager aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

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

Install sddm 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 sddm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sddm

Install sddm 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 sddm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sddm

How To Uninstall sddm on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sddm

sddm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf
/etc/pam.d/sddm
/etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter
/etc/sddm
/etc/sddm.conf
/etc/sddm.conf.d
/etc/sddm/README.scripts
/etc/sddm/Xsetup
/etc/sddm/Xstop
/etc/sddm/wayland-session
/etc/sysconfig/sddm
/run/sddm
/usr/bin/sddm
/usr/bin/sddm-greeter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/6882935ac7005ee877a22347f2559e96e83143
/usr/lib/.build-id/69
/usr/lib/.build-id/69/372623e82b6dec6f04776e5589fcff49843b3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf
/usr/lib/.build-id/bf/89de9e480503bbef1ac0a9b0b6141363252ae4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/623bd26a3e6e9691b3f24c7b545c71e5411757
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/68a0db328ee28bba8bce387ebb336c0ce9811f
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Background.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Button.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Clock.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/ComboBox.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/ImageButton.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/LayoutBox.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Menu.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/PasswordBox.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/PictureBox.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/TextBox.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/TextConstants.qml
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/qmldir
/usr/lib/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/warning.png
/usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper-start-wayland
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper-start-x11user
/usr/share/doc/sddm
/usr/share/doc/sddm/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/sddm/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sddm
/usr/share/licenses/sddm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/sddm-greeter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sddm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sddm-state.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sddm.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/sddm
/usr/share/sddm/faces
/usr/share/sddm/faces/.face.icon
/usr/share/sddm/faces/root.face.icon
/usr/share/sddm/flags
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ae.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/am.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ar.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/at.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/az.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bd.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/be.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bg.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bh.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/br.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/by.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ca.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ch.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/cu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/cz.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/de.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dj.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dz.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ee.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/eg.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/es.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/eu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/fi.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/fr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/gb.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ge.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/gr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/hr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/hu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/il.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/in.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/iq.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/is.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/it.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/jo.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/jp.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/km.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/kr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/kw.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/la.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lb.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lt.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lv.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ly.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ma.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mx.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/nl.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/no.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/om.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/pl.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ps.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/pt.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/qa.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/qc.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ro.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ru.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sa.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sd.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/se.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/si.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/so.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sy.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/th.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/tn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/tr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ua.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/uk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/un.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/us.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/uy.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/vn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ye.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/yu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/zz.png
/usr/share/sddm/scripts
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/README.scripts
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session
/usr/share/sddm/themes
/usr/share/sddm/translations
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ar.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/bn.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ca.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/cs.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/da.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/de.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/es.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/et.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/eu.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/fi.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/fr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/he.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/hi_IN.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/hu.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ie.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/is.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/it.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ja.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/kk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ko.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/lt.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/lv.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nb.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nl.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nn.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/oc.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pl.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pt_PT.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ro.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ru.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sv.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/tr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/uk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/zh_TW.qm
/var/lib/sddm

References

Summary

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


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Introduction

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

What is sddm

SDDM is a modern graphical display manager aiming to be fast, simple and beautiful. It uses modern technologies like QtQuick, which in turn gives the designer the ability to create smooth, animated user interfaces.

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

Install sddm 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 sddm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install sddm

Install sddm 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 sddm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install sddm

How To Uninstall sddm on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove sddm

sddm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.freedesktop.DisplayManager.conf
/etc/pam.d/sddm
/etc/pam.d/sddm-autologin
/etc/pam.d/sddm-greeter
/etc/sddm
/etc/sddm.conf
/etc/sddm.conf.d
/etc/sddm/README.scripts
/etc/sddm/Xsetup
/etc/sddm/Xstop
/etc/sddm/wayland-session
/etc/sysconfig/sddm
/run/sddm
/usr/bin/sddm
/usr/bin/sddm-greeter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/67
/usr/lib/.build-id/67/e742bd7c0c8c603058089d7d298d395eefa4ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/d536a09fc36325866423e0c82f8a415227308a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9d/e84bb493a3c6e831a31eaa32addfaf1237d67c
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/1229cad1c008426aa4dfbaf9cf51107accf2e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0
/usr/lib/.build-id/d0/1ca3389c64ed2ab5922f77514283fdfa060aaf
/usr/lib/sddm/sddm.conf.d
/usr/lib/systemd/system/sddm.service
/usr/lib/sysusers.d/sddm.conf
/usr/lib/tmpfiles.d/sddm.conf
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Background.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Button.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Clock.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/ComboBox.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/ImageButton.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/LayoutBox.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/Menu.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/PasswordBox.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/PictureBox.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/TextBox.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/TextConstants.qml
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/qmldir
/usr/lib64/qt5/qml/SddmComponents/warning.png
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper-start-wayland
/usr/libexec/sddm-helper-start-x11user
/usr/share/doc/sddm
/usr/share/doc/sddm/CONTRIBUTORS
/usr/share/doc/sddm/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/sddm
/usr/share/licenses/sddm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/sddm-greeter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sddm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sddm-state.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/sddm.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/sddm
/usr/share/sddm/faces
/usr/share/sddm/faces/.face.icon
/usr/share/sddm/faces/root.face.icon
/usr/share/sddm/flags
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ae.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/am.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ar.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/at.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/az.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bd.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/be.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bg.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/bh.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/br.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/by.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ca.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ch.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/cu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/cz.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/de.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dj.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/dz.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ee.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/eg.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/es.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/eu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/fi.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/fr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/gb.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ge.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/gr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/hr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/hu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/il.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/in.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/iq.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/is.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/it.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/jo.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/jp.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/km.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/kr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/kw.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/la.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lb.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lt.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/lv.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ly.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ma.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/mx.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/nl.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/no.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/om.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/pl.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ps.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/pt.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/qa.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/qc.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ro.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ru.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sa.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sd.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/se.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/si.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/so.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/sy.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/th.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/tn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/tr.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ua.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/uk.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/un.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/us.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/uy.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/vn.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/ye.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/yu.png
/usr/share/sddm/flags/zz.png
/usr/share/sddm/scripts
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/README.scripts
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsession
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xsetup
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/Xstop
/usr/share/sddm/scripts/wayland-session
/usr/share/sddm/themes
/usr/share/sddm/translations
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ar.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/bn.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ca.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/cs.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/da.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/de.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/es.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/et.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/eu.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/fi.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/fr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/he.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/hi_IN.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/hu.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ie.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/is.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/it.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ja.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/kk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ko.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/lt.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/lv.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nb.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nl.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/nn.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/oc.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pl.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pt_BR.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/pt_PT.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ro.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/ru.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/[email protected]
/usr/share/sddm/translations/sv.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/tr.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/uk.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/zh_CN.qm
/usr/share/sddm/translations/zh_TW.qm
/var/lib/sddm

References

Summary

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