How To Install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8
centos-backgrounds is CentOS-related desktop backgrounds
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8.
What is centos-backgrounds
Licensed only for approved usage, see COPYING for details.
We can use yum or dnf to install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install centos-backgrounds.
Install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centos-backgrounds using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install centos-backgrounds
Install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install centos-backgrounds using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install centos-backgrounds
How To Uninstall centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the centos-backgrounds package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove centos-backgrounds
centos-backgrounds Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-0.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-1.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-2.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-3.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-4.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-5.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-6.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-7.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-8.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default-hue-9.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default.xml
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-0.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-1.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-2.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-3.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-4.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-5.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-6.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-7.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8-hue-9.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/normalish/c8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-0.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-1.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-2.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-3.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-4.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-5.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-6.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-7.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8-hue-9.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/standard/c8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-0.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-1.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-2.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-3.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-4.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-5.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-6.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-7.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8-hue-9.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/tv-wide/c8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-0.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-1.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-2.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-3.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-4.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-5.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-6.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-7.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-8.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8-hue-9.png
/usr/share/backgrounds/c8/default/wide/c8.png
/usr/share/gnome-background-properties/desktop-backgrounds-default.xml
/usr/share/licenses/centos-backgrounds
/usr/share/licenses/centos-backgrounds/COPYING
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install centos-backgrounds on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.