How To Install spectrwm on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectrwm on CentOS 7.
What is spectrwm
Spectrwm is a small dynamic tiling window manager for X11. It tries to stay out of the way so that valuable screen real estate can be used for much more important stuff. It has sane defaults and does not require one to learn a language to do any configuration. It was written by hackers for hackers and it strives to be small, compact and fast.
We can use yum or dnf to install spectrwm on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install spectrwm.
Install spectrwm on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install spectrwm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install spectrwm
Install spectrwm 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 spectrwm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install spectrwm
How To Uninstall spectrwm on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the spectrwm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove spectrwm
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install spectrwm on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.