How to get xclock installed

Introduction to xclock:

• In Linux, the xclock package contains a simple clock application which is used in the default xinit configuration.
• This package is not a part of the Xorg katamari and is provided only as a dependency to other packages or for testing the completed Xorg installation.
• This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS-8.0 platform.

Installation of xclock:

• Install xclock by running the following commands:

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• This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user:

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How to install xclock on Red Hat Linux:

• To identify if xclock is installed and if it is not installed, how to install it on Red Hat Linux system.
• If xclock is not installed, invoking xclock will return command not found message as seen below

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• xclock whereis, which and rpm –qa commands confirm that is not installed

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• Use rpm –qa to find if the package xorg-x11-apps is installed.

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The above command returns nothing. Which means that there is no rpm for xclock installed on the system. –qa stands for query all.