How To Install progman on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install progman on CentOS 8.
What is progman
progman is a simple X11 window manager modeled after Program Manager from the Windows 3 era. It is descended from aewm by Decklin Foster and retains its MIT license.
We can use yum or dnf to install progman on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install progman.
Install progman 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 progman using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install progman
Install progman 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 progman using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install progman
How To Uninstall progman on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the progman package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove progman
progman Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/progman
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/d2b1d9c914125b418c44785ea7dcfacaf9a8a4
/usr/share/doc/progman
/usr/share/doc/progman/README.md
/usr/share/doc/progman/progman.ini
/usr/share/doc/progman/themes
/usr/share/doc/progman/themes/hotdogstand.ini
/usr/share/licenses/progman
/usr/share/licenses/progman/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install progman on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.