How To Install dconf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. dconf.i686 is A configuration system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dconf.i686`

dconf is a low-level configuration system. Its main purpose is to provide a backend to the GSettings API in GLib.

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

Install dconf.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 dconf.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dconf.i686

How To Uninstall dconf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dconf.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dconf.i686

dconf.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/dconf
/etc/dconf/db
/etc/dconf/db/distro.d
/etc/dconf/db/distro.d/locks
/etc/dconf/db/local.d
/etc/dconf/db/local.d/locks
/etc/dconf/db/site.d
/etc/dconf/db/site.d/locks
/etc/dconf/profile
/etc/dconf/profile/user
/usr/bin/dconf
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
/usr/lib/libdconf-dbus-1.so.0
/usr/lib/libdconf-dbus-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/libdconf.so.1
/usr/lib/libdconf.so.1.0.0
/usr/libexec/dconf-service
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/dconf
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/ca.desrt.dconf.service
/usr/share/licenses/dconf-0.28.0
/usr/share/licenses/dconf-0.28.0/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/dconf-service.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dconf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/dconf.7.gz

References

dconf.i686 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.