How To Install florence on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install florence on CentOS 7.
What is florence
Florence is an extensible scalable virtual keyboard for GNOME. You need it if you can’t use a real hardware keyboard, for example because you are disabled, your keyboard is broken or because you use a tablet PC, but you must be able to use a pointing device (as a mouse, a trackball or a touchscreen). Florence stays out of your way when you don’t need it it appears on the screen only when you need it. A Timer-based auto-click functionality is available to help disabled people having difficulties to click.
We can use yum or dnf to install florence on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install florence.
Install florence on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install florence using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install florence
Install florence 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 florence using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install florence
How To Uninstall florence on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the florence package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove florence
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install florence on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
