How To Install libdbusmenu on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is libdbusmenu

This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple. This is a small library designed to make sharing and displaying of menu structures over DBus simple and easy to use. It works for both QT and GTK+ and makes building menus simple.

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

Install libdbusmenu on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install libdbusmenu

Install libdbusmenu 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 libdbusmenu using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install libdbusmenu

How To Uninstall libdbusmenu on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove libdbusmenu

References

• libdbusmenu website

Summary

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