How To Install xorg-x11-xinit on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-xinit on CentOS 8.
What is xorg-x11-xinit
X.Org X11 X Window System xinit startup scripts.
We can use yum or dnf to install xorg-x11-xinit on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xorg-x11-xinit.
Install xorg-x11-xinit 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 xorg-x11-xinit using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xorg-x11-xinit
Install xorg-x11-xinit 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 xorg-x11-xinit using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xorg-x11-xinit
How To Uninstall xorg-x11-xinit on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xorg-x11-xinit package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xorg-x11-xinit
xorg-x11-xinit Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/X11/Xmodmap
/etc/X11/Xresources
/etc/X11/xinit
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients
/etc/X11/xinit/Xclients.d
/etc/X11/xinit/Xsession
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc-common
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d
/etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.d/localuser.sh
/usr/bin/startx
/usr/bin/xinit
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/36
/usr/lib/.build-id/36/fa0dcfeba4c77e70f523dfbc620cfa20c59ce5
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-xinit
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-xinit/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-xinit/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/xorg-x11-xinit/README
/usr/share/man/man1/startx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xinit.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xorg-x11-xinit on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.