How To Install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8.

What is plasma-workspace-wayland

Wayland support for Plasma.

We can use yum or dnf to install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install plasma-workspace-wayland.

Install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-workspace-wayland using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plasma-workspace-wayland

Install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install plasma-workspace-wayland using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plasma-workspace-wayland

How To Uninstall plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the plasma-workspace-wayland package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove plasma-workspace-wayland

plasma-workspace-wayland Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/startplasma-wayland
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/37
/usr/lib/.build-id/37/8b077cd3d90dfcb858ae38d24b53f006dd91e4
/usr/share/wayland-sessions/plasmawayland.desktop

References

• plasma-workspace-wayland website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install plasma-workspace-wayland on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.