How To Install icewm-xdgmenu on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-xdgmenu on CentOS 7. icewm-xdgmenu is Automatically generate the main IceWM menu

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icewm-xdgmenu on CentOS 7.

What is icewm-xdgmenu

IceWM-xdgmenu generates static IceWM menu files from the existing freedesktop.org .desktop files. Files are re-generated each time the user logs-in.

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

Install icewm-xdgmenu on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install icewm-xdgmenu

Install icewm-xdgmenu 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 icewm-xdgmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icewm-xdgmenu

How To Uninstall icewm-xdgmenu on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove icewm-xdgmenu

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Summary

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