How To Install icewm on CentOS 8
icewm is Window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on CentOS 8.
What is icewm
IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way. You can install minimal version of IceWM without all optional dependencies sudo dnf install icewm-minimal-session –setopt=install_weak_deps=False
We can use yum or dnf to install icewm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icewm.
Install icewm 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 icewm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install icewm
Install icewm 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 icewm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install icewm
How To Uninstall icewm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the icewm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove icewm
icewm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/icehelp
/usr/bin/icesh
/usr/bin/icesound
/usr/bin/icewm
/usr/bin/icewm-menu-fdo
/usr/bin/icewm-menu-xrandr
/usr/bin/icewm-session
/usr/bin/icewm-set-gnomewm
/usr/bin/icewmbg
/usr/bin/icewmhint
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/b6c06149d6e8bb4d0ec480d82c61ef0ceb261c
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/54fe6f08138aa29f722f216f9897ad2ca9ab7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/06b8250743a37e7641fa9f2b3b2f540ce84729
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/b930d979dbd5cd215412cc65ff7fd93d614da0
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/33eca0cceb1b85dcb6b8220d5db19da03776a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/c8dcbf13a4c0b2ba3e949342fada481b8fda94
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/e0237bcddecf056adc660752a654f5f4011438
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/0f51073b12c82709cc28183a958842549ef284
/usr/share/doc/icewm
/usr/share/doc/icewm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/icewm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icehelp.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icesh.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icesound.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-env.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-focus_mode.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-keys.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu-fdo.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu-xrandr.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-preferences.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-prefoverride.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-programs.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-session.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-set-gnomewm.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-shutdown.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-startup.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-theme.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-toolbar.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-winoptions.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewmbg.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewmhint.1.html
/usr/share/licenses/icewm
/usr/share/licenses/icewm/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/icehelp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icesh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icesound.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-menu-fdo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-menu-xrandr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-session.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-set-gnomewm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewmbg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewmhint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-env.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-focus_mode.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-keys.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-menu.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-preferences.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-prefoverride.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-programs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-shutdown.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-startup.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-theme.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-toolbar.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-winoptions.5.gz
/usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.