How To Install garcon on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install garcon on CentOS 7. garcon is Implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification

Introduction

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

What is garcon

Garcon is an implementation of the freedesktop.org menu specification replacing the former Xfce menu library libxfce4menu. It is based on GLib/GIO only and aims at covering the entire specification except for legacy menus.

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

Install garcon on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install garcon

Install garcon 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 garcon using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install garcon

How To Uninstall garcon on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove garcon

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Summary

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