How To Install gvfs-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvfs-smb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gvfs-smb.x86_64 is Windows fileshare support for gvfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gvfs-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gvfs-smb.x86_64`

This package provides support for reading and writing files on windows shares (SMB) to applications using gvfs.

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

Install gvfs-smb.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 gvfs-smb.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gvfs-smb.x86_64

How To Uninstall gvfs-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gvfs-smb.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gvfs-smb.x86_64

gvfs-smb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb
/usr/libexec/gvfsd-smb-browse
/usr/share/gvfs/mounts/smb-browse.mount
/usr/share/gvfs/mounts/smb.mount

References

gvfs-smb.x86_64 website

Summary

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