How To Install dvtm on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dvtm
on Fedora 34.
What is dvtm
dvtm brings the concept of tiling window management, popularized by X11-window managers like dwm to the console. As a console window manager it tries to make it easy to work with multiple console based programs like vim, mutt, cmus or irssi.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install dvtm
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dvtm.
Install dvtm 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 dvtm
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dvtm
Install dvtm 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 dvtm
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dvtm
How To Uninstall dvtm on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the dvtm
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dvtm
dvtm Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/dvtm
/usr/bin/dvtm-status
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/deee8b7d7766481c08e6ea7ca1afb9b06c4ccb
/usr/share/doc/dvtm
/usr/share/doc/dvtm/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/dvtm
/usr/share/licenses/dvtm/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/dvtm.1.gz
/usr/share/terminfo/d
/usr/share/terminfo/d/dvtm
/usr/share/terminfo/d/dvtm-256color
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dvtm
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.