How To Install dmenu on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on Fedora 34.
What is dmenu
Dynamic menu is a generic menu for X, originally designed for dwm. It manages huge amounts (up to 10.000 and more) of user defined menu items efficiently.
We can use yum or dnf to install dmenu on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmenu.
Install dmenu on Fedora 34 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dmenu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dmenu
Install dmenu on Fedora 34 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
Fedora 34 - x86_64 20 kB/s | 6.6 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64 1.4 kB/s | 989 B 00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 68 kB/s | 6.5 kB 00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates 3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB 00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates 17 kB/s | 5.9 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install dmenu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dmenu
How To Uninstall dmenu on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dmenu
dmenu Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/dmenu
/usr/bin/dmenu_path
/usr/bin/dmenu_run
/usr/bin/stest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/357e5ef7748507d3abb6069391ad6d29ac3c35
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/bbeef6bdd35ebb256e6928022620511f9c5f9a
/usr/share/doc/dmenu
/usr/share/doc/dmenu/LICENSE
/usr/share/doc/dmenu/README
/usr/share/man/man1/dmenu.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/stest.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.