How To Install nxdialog on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on CentOS 8.
What is nxdialog
NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X pplications over a network, especially a slow one. This package provides the nxdialog helper script.
We can use yum or dnf to install nxdialog on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nxdialog.
Install nxdialog 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 nxdialog using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nxdialog
Install nxdialog 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 nxdialog using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nxdialog
How To Uninstall nxdialog on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nxdialog package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nxdialog
nxdialog Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/nxdialog
/usr/share/doc/nxdialog
/usr/share/doc/nxdialog/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/nxdialog.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.