How To Install tigervnc-icons on CentOS 8

tigervnc-icons is Icons for TigerVNC viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-icons on CentOS 8.

What is tigervnc-icons

This package contains icons for TigerVNC viewer

We can use yum or dnf to install tigervnc-icons on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tigervnc-icons.

Install tigervnc-icons 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 tigervnc-icons using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tigervnc-icons

Install tigervnc-icons 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 tigervnc-icons using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tigervnc-icons

How To Uninstall tigervnc-icons on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the tigervnc-icons package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove tigervnc-icons

tigervnc-icons Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/tigervnc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/tigervnc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/tigervnc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/tigervnc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/tigervnc.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/tigervnc.svg

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tigervnc-icons on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.