How To Install wl-clipboard on Fedora 36

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install wl-clipboard on Fedora 36.

What is wl-clipboard

Command-line Wayland clipboard utilities, wl-copy and wl-paste, that let you easily copy data between the clipboard and Unix pipes, sockets, files and so on.

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

Install wl-clipboard 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 wl-clipboard using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install wl-clipboard

Install wl-clipboard 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 wl-clipboard using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install wl-clipboard

How To Uninstall wl-clipboard on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the wl-clipboard package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove wl-clipboard

wl-clipboard Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/wl-copy
/usr/bin/wl-paste
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b
/usr/lib/.build-id/4b/522e58401c006f70d0c532907d9cf130526dd8
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba
/usr/lib/.build-id/ba/b7ecca6f41a452d21528f9c72e4bb6e1133ea3
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/wl-copy
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/wl-paste
/usr/share/doc/wl-clipboard
/usr/share/doc/wl-clipboard/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/wl-clipboard
/usr/share/licenses/wl-clipboard/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/wl-clipboard.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wl-copy.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wl-paste.1.gz
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_wl-copy
/usr/share/zsh/site-functions/_wl-paste

References

• wl-clipboard website

Summary

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