How To Install xterm-resize on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm-resize on CentOS 8.
What is xterm-resize
Prints a shell command for setting the appropriate environment variables to indicate the current size of the window from which the command is run.
We can use yum or dnf to install xterm-resize on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xterm-resize.
Install xterm-resize 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 xterm-resize using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xterm-resize
Install xterm-resize 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 xterm-resize using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xterm-resize
How To Uninstall xterm-resize on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xterm-resize package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xterm-resize
xterm-resize Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/resize
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2
/usr/lib/.build-id/c2/46ce5ae746e1538e3022a62fdbc86ca0e242be
/usr/share/man/man1/resize.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xterm-resize on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.