How To Install dmenu on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on CentOS 7.
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 CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dmenu.
Install dmenu on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install dmenu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install dmenu
Install dmenu 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 dmenu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install dmenu
How To Uninstall dmenu on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the dmenu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove dmenu
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install dmenu on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.