How To Install neXtaw on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw on CentOS 8.
What is neXtaw
neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set. It is based on Xaw3d, by Kaleb Keithley and is almost 100% backward compatible with it. Its goal is to try to emulate the look and feel of the N*XTSTEP GUI.
We can use yum or dnf to install neXtaw on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neXtaw.
Install neXtaw 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 neXtaw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install neXtaw
Install neXtaw 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 neXtaw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install neXtaw
How To Uninstall neXtaw on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the neXtaw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove neXtaw
neXtaw Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/6e5ca7fd5b71a85af21447402a57cd578d6627
/usr/lib64/libneXtaw.so.0
/usr/lib64/libneXtaw.so.0.15.1
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README.XAW3D
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/TODO
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/00-README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Emacs
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Fig
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/GXditview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Ghostview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XCalc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClipboard
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClock
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XConsole
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XFontSel
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XGrab
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XLoad
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XPaint
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xdefaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xedit
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xfd
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xgc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xloadimage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmag
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xman
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmessage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmh
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xvidtune
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.