How To Install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gears-backgrounds in Fedora 36. gears-backgrounds is Gears desktop backgrounds

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36.

What is gears-backgrounds

This package contains desktop backgrounds for the Gears theme.

We can use yum or dnf to install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gears-backgrounds.

Install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gears-backgrounds using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gears-backgrounds

Install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gears-backgrounds using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gears-backgrounds

How To Uninstall gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gears-backgrounds package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gears-backgrounds

gears-backgrounds Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/backgrounds/gears
/usr/share/backgrounds/gears/gears-large-wide.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/gears/gears-many-wide.png
/usr/share/doc/gears-backgrounds
/usr/share/doc/gears-backgrounds/COPYING
/usr/share/gnome-background-properties
/usr/share/gnome-background-properties/desktop-backgrounds-gears.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gears-backgrounds on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).