How To Install light-locker on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install light-locker on CentOS 7.
What is light-locker
light-locker is a simple locker (forked from gnome-screensaver) that aims to have simple, sane, secure defaults and be well integrated with the desktop while not carrying any desktop- specific dependencies. It relies on lightdm for locking and unlocking your session.
We can use yum or dnf to install light-locker on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install light-locker.
Install light-locker on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install light-locker using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install light-locker
Install light-locker 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 light-locker using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install light-locker
How To Uninstall light-locker on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the light-locker package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove light-locker
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install light-locker on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
