How To Install xkill on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xkill
on Fedora 34.
What is xkill
xkill is a utility for forcing the X server to close connections to clients. This program is very dangerous, but is useful for aborting programs that have displayed undesired windows on a user’s screen.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install xkill
on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xkill.
Install xkill 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 xkill
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xkill
Install xkill 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 xkill
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xkill
How To Uninstall xkill on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the xkill
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xkill
xkill Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/xkill
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3
/usr/lib/.build-id/b3/95b849e3b27536f546c2bab6aa4f1defb8d792
/usr/share/licenses/xkill
/usr/share/licenses/xkill/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/xkill.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xkill
on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.