How To Install conky on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install conky on CentOS 7.
What is conky
A system monitor for X originally based on the torsmo code. but more kickass. It just keeps on given’er. Yeah.
We can use yum or dnf to install conky on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install conky.
Install conky on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install conky using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install conky
Install conky 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 conky using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install conky
How To Uninstall conky on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the conky package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove conky
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install conky on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
