How To Install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7. cinnamon-menus is A menu system for the Cinnamon project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7.

What is cinnamon-menus

cinnamon-menus is an implementation of the draft “Desktop Menu Specification” from freedesktop.org. This package also contains the Cinnamon menu layout configuration files, .directory files and assorted menu related utility programs, Python bindings, and a simple menu editor.

We can use yum or dnf to install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install cinnamon-menus.

Install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install cinnamon-menus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cinnamon-menus

Install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7 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 cinnamon-menus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cinnamon-menus

How To Uninstall cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the cinnamon-menus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove cinnamon-menus

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install cinnamon-menus on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.