How To Install slim on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install slim on CentOS 7.
What is slim
SLiM (Simple Login Manager) is a graphical login manager for X11. It aims to be simple, fast and independent from the various desktop environments. SLiM is based on latest stable release of Login.app by Per Lidén. In the distribution, slim may be called through a wrapper, slim-dynwm, which determines the available window managers using the freedesktop information and modifies the slim configuration file accordingly, before launching slim.
We can use yum or dnf to install slim on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install slim.
Install slim on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install slim using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install slim
Install slim 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 slim using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install slim
How To Uninstall slim on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the slim package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove slim
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install slim on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.