How To Install gnome-classic-session.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-classic-session.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is gnome-classic-session.noarch
This package contains the required components for the GNOME Shell “classic” mode, which aims to provide a GNOME 2-like user interface.
We can use yum to install gnome-classic-session.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-classic-session.noarch.
Install gnome-classic-session.noarch 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 gnome-classic-session.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-classic-session.noarch
How To Uninstall gnome-classic-session.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the gnome-classic-session.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove gnome-classic-session.noarch
gnome-classic-session.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.classic-overrides.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-classic.session
/usr/share/gnome-shell/modes/classic.json
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/calendar-today.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/classic-process-working.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/classic-toggle-off-intl.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/classic-toggle-off-us.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/classic-toggle-on-intl.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/classic-toggle-on-us.svg
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic-high-contrast.css
/usr/share/gnome-shell/theme/gnome-classic.css
/usr/share/xsessions/gnome-classic.desktop
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-classic-session.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.