How To Install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8. nxdialog is NX Dialog

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8.

What is nxdialog

NX is a software suite which implements very efficient compression of the X11 protocol. This increases performance when using X pplications over a network, especially a slow one. This package provides the nxdialog helper script.

We can use yum or dnf to install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nxdialog.

Install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install nxdialog

Install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install nxdialog

How To Uninstall nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nxdialog

nxdialog Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nxdialog
/usr/share/doc/nxdialog
/usr/share/doc/nxdialog/README.md
/usr/share/man/man1/nxdialog.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nxdialog on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.