How To Install libNX_X11 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libNX_X11
on CentOS 7.
What is libNX_X11
NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X applications over a network, especially a slow one. The X Window System is a network-transparent window system that was designed at MIT. X display servers run on computers with either monochrome or color bitmap display hardware. The server distributes user input to and accepts output requests from various client programs located either on the same machine or elsewhere in the network. Xlib is a C subroutine library that application programs (clients) use to interface with the window system by means of a stream connection.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install libNX_X11
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install libNX_X11.
Install libNX_X11 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install libNX_X11
using yum
by running the following command:
Install libNX_X11 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.
After updating yum database, We can install libNX_X11
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall libNX_X11 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the libNX_X11
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libNX_X11
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.