How To Install azote on CentOS 8

azote is Wallpaper and colour manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8.

What is `azote`

Azote is a GTK+3 - based picture browser and background setter, as the frontend to the swaybg (sway/Wayland) and feh (X windows) commands. It also includes several colour management tools. The program is confirmed to work on sway, i3, Openbox, Fluxbox and dwm window managers, on Arch Linux, Void Linux, Debian and Fedora.

We can use yum or dnf to install azote on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install azote.

Install azote on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install azote using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install azote

Install azote on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install azote using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install azote

How To Uninstall azote on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the azote package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove azote

azote Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/azote
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/color_tools.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/colorthief.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper1.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper2.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/empty.png
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_about.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_all.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_apply.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_az.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_config.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_flip.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_image_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_new.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_old.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_picker.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_refresh.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_split.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_za.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/squares.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/README.md
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/de_DE
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/en_EN
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/fr_FR
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/pl_PL
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/plugins.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/tools.py
/usr/share/applications/azote.desktop
/usr/share/azote
/usr/share/azote/azote.svg
/usr/share/azote/indicator_active.png
/usr/share/azote/indicator_attention.png
/usr/share/doc/azote
/usr/share/doc/azote/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/azote
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE-COLORTHIEF

References

azote website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.