How To Install icewm-minimal-session on Rocky Linux 8

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-minimal-session on Rocky Linux 8.

What is icewm-minimal-session

Minimal, lightweight session for icewm.

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

Install icewm-minimal-session 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 icewm-minimal-session using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icewm-minimal-session

Install icewm-minimal-session 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 icewm-minimal-session using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install icewm-minimal-session

How To Uninstall icewm-minimal-session on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the icewm-minimal-session package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove icewm-minimal-session

icewm-minimal-session Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/xsessions/icewm.desktop

References

• icewm-minimal-session website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-minimal-session on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.