How To Install tmux-powerline on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmux-powerline on CentOS 8.
What is tmux-powerline
Powerline for tmux. Add source /usr/share/tmux/powerline.conf to your ~/.tmux.conf file.
We can use yum or dnf to install tmux-powerline on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install tmux-powerline.
Install tmux-powerline 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 tmux-powerline using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install tmux-powerline
Install tmux-powerline 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 tmux-powerline using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install tmux-powerline
How To Uninstall tmux-powerline on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the tmux-powerline package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove tmux-powerline
tmux-powerline Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/tmux-powerline
/usr/share/doc/tmux-powerline/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/tmux-powerline/README.rst
/usr/share/tmux
/usr/share/tmux/powerline-base.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_1.7_plus.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_1.8.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_1.8_minus.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_1.8_plus.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_1.9_plus.conf
/usr/share/tmux/powerline_tmux_2.1_plus.conf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install tmux-powerline on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.