Hyprland 0.52.2+ for Fedora — Clean COPR Build

Source: Dev.to | Dec 18, 2025 (UTC)

I’ve published my own Hyprland COPR repository for Fedora

This is a clean, spec-compliant build, following Fedora RPM best practices:

• correct RPM packaging
• no duplicated system libraries
• Hyprland-specific libraries vendored and isolated under /usr/libexec/hyprland/vendor
• proper RUNPATH set at build time (no LD_LIBRARY_PATH hacks)
• runtime verified with ldd, readelf, and duplicate checks

Motivation

The motivation was purely practical.

Fedora 43 currently ships Hyprland 0.45, while upstream is already at 0.52+.

I needed a newer compositor with fresh Hyprland features to unblock my own experiments — especially around Wayland and Rust-based tooling.

I solved this problem for myself first, and then decided to share the result with the community.

If you care about clean builds, reproducibility, and no ABI conflicts, this repository is for you. (stable recent releases, updated as needed — not automatically tracking every upstream commit)

Proofs / Technical Guarantees

• Vendor libraries are isolated and do not shadow system libraries
• No parallel-install conflicts (dnf repoquery --duplicates is clean)
• Dynamic linking is deterministic and auditable
• Build avoids patchelf (which is known to corrupt ELF headers in this case)

All of this can be verified directly from the installed package.

Install from copr.fedorainfracloud.org/coprs/ashbuk/Hyprland-Fedora

sudo dnf copr enable ashbuk/Hyprland-Fedora sudo dnf install hyprland

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