How To Install dmenu on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu in Fedora 36. dmenu is Generic menu for X

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on Fedora 36.

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 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmenu.

Install dmenu on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install dmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install dmenu

Install dmenu on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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 36

To uninstall only the dmenu package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove dmenu

dmenu Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/dmenu
/usr/bin/dmenu_path
/usr/bin/dmenu_run
/usr/bin/stest
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/04
/usr/lib/.build-id/04/65e6e334ac6d059336500d465e877d6ee85dac
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/19ba4b74d3bbfb215310d833b3e779bf1d69f8
/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

dmenu website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).