How To Install ratpoison on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on CentOS 7.
What is ratpoison
Ratpoison is a simple window manager that relies solely on keyboard input as opposed to keyboard and mouse input.
We can use yum or dnf to install ratpoison on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install ratpoison.
Install ratpoison on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install ratpoison using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install ratpoison
Install ratpoison 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 ratpoison using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install ratpoison
How To Uninstall ratpoison on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the ratpoison package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove ratpoison
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install ratpoison on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
