How To Install icewm on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on Rocky Linux 8. icewm is Window manager designed for speed, usability, and consistency

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `icewm`

IceWM is a window manager for the X Window System (freedesktop, XFree86). The goal of IceWM is speed, simplicity, and not getting in the user’s way. You can install minimal version of IceWM without all optional dependencies sudo dnf install icewm-minimal-session –setopt=install_weak_deps=False

We can use yum or dnf to install icewm on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install icewm.

Install icewm on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install icewm

Install icewm on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install icewm

How To Uninstall icewm on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove icewm

icewm Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/icehelp
/usr/bin/icesh
/usr/bin/icesound
/usr/bin/icewm
/usr/bin/icewm-menu-fdo
/usr/bin/icewm-menu-xrandr
/usr/bin/icewm-session
/usr/bin/icewm-set-gnomewm
/usr/bin/icewmbg
/usr/bin/icewmhint
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f
/usr/lib/.build-id/0f/b6c06149d6e8bb4d0ec480d82c61ef0ceb261c
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/54fe6f08138aa29f722f216f9897ad2ca9ab7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/06b8250743a37e7641fa9f2b3b2f540ce84729
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/b930d979dbd5cd215412cc65ff7fd93d614da0
/usr/lib/.build-id/34
/usr/lib/.build-id/34/33eca0cceb1b85dcb6b8220d5db19da03776a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/56
/usr/lib/.build-id/56/c8dcbf13a4c0b2ba3e949342fada481b8fda94
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6
/usr/lib/.build-id/b6/e0237bcddecf056adc660752a654f5f4011438
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/0f51073b12c82709cc28183a958842549ef284
/usr/share/doc/icewm
/usr/share/doc/icewm/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/icewm/README.md
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icehelp.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icesh.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icesound.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-env.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-focus_mode.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-keys.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu-fdo.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu-xrandr.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-menu.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-preferences.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-prefoverride.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-programs.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-session.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-set-gnomewm.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-shutdown.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-startup.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-theme.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-toolbar.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm-winoptions.5.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewm.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewmbg.1.html
/usr/share/doc/icewm/icewmhint.1.html
/usr/share/licenses/icewm
/usr/share/licenses/icewm/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/en/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ie/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/no/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/icewm.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/icehelp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icesh.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icesound.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-menu-fdo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-menu-xrandr.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-session.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm-set-gnomewm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewmbg.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/icewmhint.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-env.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-focus_mode.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-keys.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-menu.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-preferences.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-prefoverride.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-programs.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-shutdown.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-startup.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-theme.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-toolbar.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/icewm-winoptions.5.gz
/usr/share/xsessions/icewm-session.desktop

References

icewm website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.