How To Install exo on CentOS 8
exo is Application library for the Xfce desktop environment
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install exo on CentOS 8.
What is exo
Extension library for Xfce, targeted at application development.
We can use yum or dnf to install exo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install exo.
Install exo 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 exo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install exo
Install exo 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 exo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install exo
How To Uninstall exo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the exo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove exo
exo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/xdg/xfce4
/etc/xdg/xfce4/helpers.rc
/usr/bin/exo-desktop-item-edit
/usr/bin/exo-open
/usr/bin/exo-preferred-applications
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b
/usr/lib/.build-id/0b/c05f41d16363f451e0da266258f58703fc89e2
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/3b/1409cdd91c78528b8993cadb36bd9d75d3231e
/usr/lib/.build-id/43
/usr/lib/.build-id/43/df37a5977419cc8a0b24f96390624c460d7458
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4
/usr/lib/.build-id/d4/defdfbf5c5171d3874980976563731ec3242c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/b4c12b4153f4195276ca1b6d28276e064a7e27
/usr/lib64/libexo-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libexo-1.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/libexo-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libexo-2.so.0.1.0
/usr/lib64/xfce4
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo-1
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo-1/exo-compose-mail-1
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo-2
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo-2/exo-helper-2
/usr/lib64/xfce4/exo/exo-compose-mail
/usr/share/applications/exo-file-manager.desktop
/usr/share/applications/exo-mail-reader.desktop
/usr/share/applications/exo-preferred-applications.desktop
/usr/share/applications/exo-terminal-emulator.desktop
/usr/share/applications/exo-web-browser.desktop
/usr/share/doc/exo
/usr/share/doc/exo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/exo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/exo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/exo/README
/usr/share/doc/exo/THANKS
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/internet-mail.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/preferences-desktop-default-applications.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/internet-mail.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/preferences-desktop-default-applications.png
/usr/share/licenses/exo
/usr/share/licenses/exo/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_AU/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy_AM/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur_PK/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/exo-1.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/exo-open.1.gz
/usr/share/pixmaps/exo
/usr/share/pixmaps/exo/exo-thumbnail-frame.png
/usr/share/xfce4
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/Thunar.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/aterm.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/balsa.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/brave.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/caja.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/chromium.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/debian-sensible-browser.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/debian-x-terminal-emulator.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/dillo.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/encompass.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/epiphany.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/eterm.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/evolution.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/firefox.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/galeon.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/geary.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/gnome-terminal.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/google-chrome.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/icecat.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/icedove.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/iceweasel.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/jumanji.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/kmail.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/konqueror.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/links.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/lynx.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/midori.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/mozilla-browser.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/mozilla-mailer.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/mutt.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/nautilus.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/netscape-navigator.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/nxterm.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/opera-browser.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/pcmanfm-qt.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/pcmanfm.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/qterminal.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/qtfm.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/qupzilla.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/rodent.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/rox-filer.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/sakura.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/surf.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/sylpheed-claws.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/sylpheed.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/terminator.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/thunderbird.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/urxvt.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/vimprobable2.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/w3m.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/xfce4-terminal.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/xfe.desktop
/usr/share/xfce4/helpers/xterm.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install exo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.