How To Install menu-cache on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install menu-cache on CentOS 7.
What is menu-cache
Menu-cache is a caching mechanism for freedesktop.org compliant menus to speed up parsing of the menu entries. It is currently used by some of components of the LXDE desktop environment such as LXPanel or LXLauncher.
We can use yum or dnf to install menu-cache on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install menu-cache.
Install menu-cache on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install menu-cache using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install menu-cache
Install menu-cache 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 menu-cache using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install menu-cache
How To Uninstall menu-cache on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the menu-cache package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove menu-cache
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install menu-cache on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
