How To Install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 is Compat package with gnome-desktop 3.14 libraries

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `compat-gnome-desktop314.i686`

Compatibility package with gnome-desktop 3.14 librarires.

We can use yum to install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686.

Install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686

How To Uninstall compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove compat-gnome-desktop314.i686

compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-3.so.10
/usr/lib/libgnome-desktop-3.so.10.0.0
/usr/share/licenses/compat-gnome-desktop314-3.14.2
/usr/share/licenses/compat-gnome-desktop314-3.14.2/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/compat-gnome-desktop314-3.14.2/COPYING.LIB

References

compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install compat-gnome-desktop314.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.