How To Install gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 is Icon theme caching utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64`

GTK+ can use the cache files created by gtk-update-icon-cache to avoid a lot of system call and disk seek overhead when the application starts. Since the format of the cache files allows them to be mmap()ed shared between multiple applications, the overall memory consumption is reduced as well.

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

Install gtk-update-icon-cache.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 gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64

How To Uninstall gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64

gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gtk-update-icon-cache
/usr/share/licenses/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.22.30
/usr/share/licenses/gtk-update-icon-cache-3.22.30/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/gtk-update-icon-cache.1.gz

References

gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gtk-update-icon-cache.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.