How To Install cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported

This package provides additional unsupported screensavers. They are unsupported in fedora due to issues with suspend, you may need to use the Esc key to get the unlock screen.

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

Install cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported 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-screensaver-unsupported using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported

Install cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported 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-screensaver-unsupported using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported

How To Uninstall cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported

References

• cinnamon-screensaver-unsupported website

Summary

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