How To Install gnome-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-common.noarch is Useful things common to building GNOME packages from scratch

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gnome-common.noarch

This package contains sample files that should be used to develop pretty much every GNOME application. The programs included here are not needed for running GNOME apps or building ones from distributed tarballs. They are only useful for compiling from git sources or when developing the build infrastructure for a GNOME application.

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

Install gnome-common.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-common.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-common.noarch

How To Uninstall gnome-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-common.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-common.noarch

gnome-common.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common-3.18.0/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-common-3.18.0
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-common-3.18.0/COPYING

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.