How To Install eog on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install eog on CentOS 7. eog is Eye of GNOME image viewer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install eog on CentOS 7.

What is eog

The Eye of GNOME image viewer (eog) is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop. It can view single image files in a variety of formats, as well as large image collections. eog is extensible through a plugin system. The Eye of GNOME image viewer (eog) is the official image viewer for the GNOME desktop. It can view single image files in a variety of formats, as well as large image collections. eog is extensible through a plugin system.

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

Install eog on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install eog

Install eog 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 eog using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install eog

How To Uninstall eog on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove eog

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Summary

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