How To Install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin on CentOS 8

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin is An alternate application launcher for Xfce

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin on CentOS 8.

What is `xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin`

Alternate application launcher for Xfce. When you open it you are shown a list of applications you have marked as favorites. You can browse through all of your installed applications by clicking on the category buttons on the side. Top level categories make browsing fast, and simple to switch between. Additionally, Whisker Menu keeps a list of the last ten applications that you’ve launched from it

We can use yum or dnf to install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.

Install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 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 xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

Install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin 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 xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

How To Uninstall xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/xfce4-popup-whiskermenu
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e
/usr/lib/.build-id/6e/36a3b8b9408da321d877b8f94354f56a4b9964
/usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libwhiskermenu.so
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/xfce4-whiskermenu.svg
/usr/share/licenses/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin
/usr/share/licenses/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/xfce4-popup-whiskermenu.1.gz
/usr/share/xfce4/panel/plugins/whiskermenu.desktop

References

xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xfce4-whiskermenu-plugin on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.