How To Install qiv on CentOS 8

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install qiv

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install qiv

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is qiv and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install qiv on CentOS 8. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install qiv on CentOS 8 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install qiv using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install qiv

Install qiv on CentOS 8 using yum

Because qiv is available in CentOS 8’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install qiv package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install qiv

How to upgrade (update) a single package qiv using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like qiv in this example you should use the following command:

yum update qiv

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade qiv

How to Upgrade qiv on CentOS 8 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update qiv

How To remove qiv from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the qiv package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove qiv

Extra info and code examples

Quick Image Viewer (qiv) is a very small and pretty fast GDK/Imlib image viewer. Features include zoom, maxpect, scale down, fullscreen, brightness/contrast/gamma correction, slideshow, pan with keyboard and mouse, rotate left/right, flip, delete (move to .qiv-trash/), jump to image x, jump forward/backward x images, filename filter, and you can use qiv to set your X11-Desktop background. qiv also supports the assignment of external commands (like metacam) to unused keys.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install qiv using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the qiv from CentOS 8.

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