How To Install xterm on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is xterm
The xterm program is a terminal emulator for the X Window System. It provides DEC VT102 and Tektronix 4014 compatible terminals for programs that can’t use the window system directly.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xterm
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xterm.
Install xterm 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 xterm
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xterm
Install xterm 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 xterm
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xterm
How To Uninstall xterm on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the xterm
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xterm
xterm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/koi8rxterm
/usr/bin/uxterm
/usr/bin/xterm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/93
/usr/lib/.build-id/93/289559d7dd4e2af53708da9e590306f8995b92
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/KOI8RXTerm
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/KOI8RXTerm-color
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/UXTerm-color
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/X11/app-defaults/XTerm-color
/usr/share/appdata/xterm.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/xterm.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xterm
/usr/share/doc/xterm/16colors.txt
/usr/share/doc/xterm/README.i18n
/usr/share/doc/xterm/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/xterm/ctlseqs.txt
/usr/share/doc/xterm/xterm.log.html
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xterm-color.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xterm-color.svg
/usr/share/man/man1/koi8rxterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/uxterm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xterm.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/filled-xterm_32x32.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/filled-xterm_48x48.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_32x32.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/mini.xterm_48x48.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm-color_32x32.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm-color_48x48.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm_32x32.xpm
/usr/share/pixmaps/xterm_48x48.xpm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.