How To Install neXtaw on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw
on Fedora 34.
What is neXtaw
neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set. It is based on Xaw3d, by Kaleb Keithley and is almost 100% backward compatible with it. Its goal is to try to emulate the look and feel of the NXTSTEP GUI. neXtaw 0.15.1 35.fc34 x86_64 210 k neXtaw-0.15.1-35.fc34.src.rpm fedora Modified version of the Athena Widgets with NXTSTEP appearance http MIT neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set. It is based on Xaw3d, by Kaleb Keithley and is almost 100% backward compatible with it. Its goal is to try to emulate the look and feel of the N*XTSTEP GUI.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install neXtaw
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neXtaw.
Install neXtaw 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 neXtaw
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install neXtaw
Install neXtaw 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 neXtaw
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install neXtaw
How To Uninstall neXtaw on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the neXtaw
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove neXtaw
neXtaw Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/8c0e727798fed919d0c70c3482f26ef0e3b577
/usr/lib64/libneXtaw.so.0
/usr/lib64/libneXtaw.so.0.15.1
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README.XAW3D
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/TODO
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/00-README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Emacs
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Fig
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/GXditview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Ghostview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XCalc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClipboard
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClock
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XConsole
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XFontSel
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XGrab
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XLoad
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XPaint
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xdefaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xedit
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xfd
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xgc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xloadimage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmag
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xman
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmessage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmh
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xvidtune
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw/COPYING
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc
/usr/lib/.build-id/cc/a10cdb8ceb2fae1a2074ab0825e2c96304bf87
/usr/lib/libneXtaw.so.0
/usr/lib/libneXtaw.so.0.15.1
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/README.XAW3D
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/TODO
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/00-README
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Bitmap-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Editres-color
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Emacs
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Fig
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/GXditview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Ghostview
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XCalc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClipboard
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XClock
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XConsole
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XFontSel
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XGrab
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XLoad
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XPaint
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/XTerm
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xdefaults
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xedit
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xfd
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xgc
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xloadimage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmag
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xman
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmessage
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xmh
/usr/share/doc/neXtaw/app-defaults/Xvidtune
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw
/usr/share/licenses/neXtaw/COPYING
References
- [neXtaw website](http://siag.nu/neXtaw/ http://siag.nu/neXtaw/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.