How To Install yad on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install yad on CentOS 7. yad is Display graphical dialogs from shell scripts or command line

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install yad on CentOS 7.

What is yad

Yad (yet another dialog) is a fork of zenity with many improvements, such as custom buttons, additional dialogs, pop-up menu in notification icon and more.

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

Install yad on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install yad

Install yad 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 yad using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install yad

How To Uninstall yad on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove yad

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Summary

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