azote is Wallpaper and colour manager for Sway, i3 and some other WMs
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8.
What is azote
Azote is a GTK+3 – based picture browser and background setter, as the frontend to the swaybg (sway/Wayland) and feh (X windows) commands. It also includes several colour management tools. The program is confirmed to work on sway, i3, Openbox, Fluxbox and dwm window managers, on Arch Linux, Void Linux, Debian and Fedora.
We can use yum or dnf to install azote on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install azote.
Install azote on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install azote using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install azote
Install azote on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install azote using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install azote
How To Uninstall azote on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the azote package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove azote
azote Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/azote
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote-1.7.10-py3.6.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/color_tools.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/colorthief.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/common.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/main.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/plugins.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/__pycache__/tools.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/color_tools.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/colorthief.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/common.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper1.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote-wallpaper2.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/azote.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/empty.png
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_about.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_all.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_apply.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_az.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_config.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_flip.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_image_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_menu.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_new.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_old.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_picker.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_refresh.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_split.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/icon_za.svg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/images/squares.jpg
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/README.md
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/de_DE
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/en_EN
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/fr_FR
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/languages/pl_PL
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/main.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/plugins.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/azote/tools.py
/usr/share/applications/azote.desktop
/usr/share/azote
/usr/share/azote/azote.svg
/usr/share/azote/indicator_active.png
/usr/share/azote/indicator_attention.png
/usr/share/doc/azote
/usr/share/doc/azote/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/azote
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE
/usr/share/licenses/azote/LICENSE-COLORTHIEF
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install azote on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
