How To Install gnome-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-session.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-session.x86_64 is GNOME session manager

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnome-session.x86_64`

gnome-session manages a GNOME desktop or GDM login session. It starts up the other core GNOME components and handles logout and saving the session.

We can use yum to install gnome-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-session.x86_64.

Install gnome-session.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 gnome-session.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-session.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-session.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-session.x86_64

gnome-session.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gnome-session
/usr/bin/gnome-session-custom-session
/usr/bin/gnome-session-inhibit
/usr/bin/gnome-session-properties
/usr/bin/gnome-session-quit
/usr/bin/gnome-session-selector
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-binary
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated-gl-helper
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-check-accelerated-gles-helper
/usr/libexec/gnome-session-failed
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/gnome-session.convert
/usr/share/applications/session-properties.desktop
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-3.28.1
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-3.28.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-3.28.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session-3.28.1/README
/usr/share/doc/gnome-session/dbus/gnome-session.html
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.SessionManager.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-session
/usr/share/gnome-session/hardware-compatibility
/usr/share/gnome-session/session-properties.ui
/usr/share/gnome-session/session-selector.ui
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome-dummy.session
/usr/share/gnome-session/sessions/gnome.session
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/session-properties.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/session-properties.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/session-properties-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-session-3.28.1
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-session-3.28.1/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/an/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/crh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/csb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/fy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ig/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ps/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/uz@cyrillic/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/gnome-session-3.0.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session-inhibit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session-quit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session-selector.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gnome-session.1.gz

References

gnome-session.x86_64 website

Summary

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