How To Install dconf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. dconf.x86_64 is A configuration system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `dconf.x86_64`

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.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install dconf.x86_64.

Install dconf.x86_64 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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install dconf.x86_64

How To Uninstall dconf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the dconf.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove dconf.x86_64

dconf.x86_64 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/lib64/gio/modules/libdconfsettings.so
/usr/lib64/libdconf-dbus-1.so.0
/usr/lib64/libdconf-dbus-1.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/libdconf.so.1
/usr/lib64/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.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install dconf.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.