How To Install azote on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8. azote is Wallpaper and colour manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8.

What is azote

Azote is a GTK+3 - based picture browser and background setter, as the frontend to the swaybg (sway/Wayland) and feh (X windows) commands. It also includes several colour management tools. The program is confirmed to work on sway, i3, Openbox, Fluxbox and dwm window managers, on Arch Linux, Void Linux, Debian and Fedora.

We can use yum or dnf to install azote on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install azote.

Install azote on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install azote

Install azote on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install azote

How To Uninstall azote on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove azote

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.