How To Install neXtaw on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw on CentOS 7.
What is neXtaw
neXtaw is a replacement library for the Athena (libXaw) widget set. It is based on Xaw3d, by Kaleb Keithley and is almost 100% backward compatible with it. Its goal is to try to emulate the look and feel of the N*XTSTEP GUI.
We can use yum or dnf to install neXtaw on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install neXtaw.
Install neXtaw on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install neXtaw using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install neXtaw
Install neXtaw 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 neXtaw using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install neXtaw
How To Uninstall neXtaw on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the neXtaw package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove neXtaw
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install neXtaw on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
