How To Install libappindicator-sharp on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libappindicator-sharp on CentOS 7.

What is libappindicator-sharp

A library to allow applications to export a menu into the Unity Menu bar. Based on KSNI it also works in KDE and will fallback to generic Systray support if none of those are available. This package contains the Mono C# bindings for this library.

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

Install libappindicator-sharp on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libappindicator-sharp

Install libappindicator-sharp 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 libappindicator-sharp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libappindicator-sharp

How To Uninstall libappindicator-sharp on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the libappindicator-sharp package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove libappindicator-sharp

References

• libappindicator-sharp website

Summary

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