How To Install slick-greeter on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter on CentOS 7. slick-greeter is A slick-looking LightDM greeter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter on CentOS 7.

What is slick-greeter

A cross-distro LightDM greeter based on unity-greeter.

We can use yum or dnf to install slick-greeter on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slick-greeter.

Install slick-greeter on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install slick-greeter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install slick-greeter

Install slick-greeter 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 slick-greeter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install slick-greeter

How To Uninstall slick-greeter on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the slick-greeter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove slick-greeter

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install slick-greeter on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.