How To Install GConf2 on CentOS 8

GConf2 is A process-transparent configuration system A process-transparent configuration system

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install GConf2 on CentOS 8.

What is `GConf2`

GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to support workgroup administration. GConf2 3.2.6 22.el8 x86_64 1.0 M GConf2-3.2.6-22.el8.src.rpm appstream A process-transparent configuration system http LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ GConf is a process-transparent configuration database API used to store user preferences. It has pluggable backends and features to support workgroup administration.

We can use yum or dnf to install GConf2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install GConf2.

Install GConf2 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 GConf2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install GConf2

Install GConf2 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 GConf2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install GConf2

How To Uninstall GConf2 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the GConf2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove GConf2

GConf2 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.conf
/etc/gconf
/etc/gconf/2
/etc/gconf/2/path
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system
/etc/gconf/schemas
/etc/xdg/autostart/gsettings-data-convert.desktop
/usr/bin/gconf-merge-tree
/usr/bin/gconftool-2
/usr/bin/gsettings-data-convert
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/02
/usr/lib/.build-id/02/54f0f5d5089cdd1ad26ba72824b404ce3e59c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/8214f8df2f8b1a4152235f3695020dfa27407f
/usr/lib/.build-id/52
/usr/lib/.build-id/52/6891ed99b3776cc43066c0f66bcf35f7a6d65d
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/3e8a560eac6cf72ecf8fd42ea8533077879d01
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/667513af968fdd1bce021c2d052cfc885a2633
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/a3e34442b06bfd8cbee414eea7e9f77225dae3
/usr/lib/.build-id/99
/usr/lib/.build-id/99/a1f78dc691c8f1d54fbd49d60a8516e23729ad
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5
/usr/lib/.build-id/d5/c12df421a33a4a774ca893cbe972eddbec624a
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/f522db02da1b709601d823398f7bf25c1882e3
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.gconf2
/usr/lib64/GConf
/usr/lib64/GConf/2
/usr/lib64/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-oldxml.so
/usr/lib64/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so
/usr/lib64/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib64/girepository-1.0/GConf-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib64/libgconf-2.so.4
/usr/lib64/libgconf-2.so.4.1.5
/usr/libexec/gconf-defaults-mechanism
/usr/libexec/gconfd-2
/usr/share/GConf
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.GConf.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.service
/usr/share/doc/GConf2
/usr/share/doc/GConf2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/GConf2/README
/usr/share/licenses/GConf2
/usr/share/licenses/GConf2/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gconftool-2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsettings-data-convert.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gconf.defaults.policy
/usr/share/sgml
/usr/share/sgml/gconf
/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd
/var/lib/rpm-state/gconf
/etc/dbus-1/system.d/org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.conf
/etc/gconf
/etc/gconf/2
/etc/gconf/2/path
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.mandatory
/etc/gconf/gconf.xml.system
/etc/gconf/schemas
/etc/xdg/autostart/gsettings-data-convert.desktop
/usr/bin/gconf-merge-tree
/usr/bin/gconftool-2
/usr/bin/gsettings-data-convert
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/13
/usr/lib/.build-id/13/421a1d6f5ae050a477d68e7afacaee7b266cd1
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/1b886ed148bf16abea97f4cf270cb8160272d9
/usr/lib/.build-id/44
/usr/lib/.build-id/44/bf0b1c0254a7f655e1ff1d386247c218e153c9
/usr/lib/.build-id/72
/usr/lib/.build-id/72/85479882a5312d4a5862b816ff22cc248eea74
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f
/usr/lib/.build-id/7f/75fa0aa84766a1593dfb8381d0b574f72913f9
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/e5/c0146093fe62e05f1fcd70ccd9ef42f6cad427
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6
/usr/lib/.build-id/f6/fb90f718182a76843b5d54be00e322742f51d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/23ebc8016439c12c891a93431ab6004b604b3b
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/da165a01a5f31a64e59bfe4a9148575c6679a3
/usr/lib/GConf
/usr/lib/GConf/2
/usr/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-oldxml.so
/usr/lib/GConf/2/libgconfbackend-xml.so
/usr/lib/gio/modules/libgsettingsgconfbackend.so
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0
/usr/lib/girepository-1.0/GConf-2.0.typelib
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4
/usr/lib/libgconf-2.so.4.1.5
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.gconf2
/usr/libexec/gconf-defaults-mechanism
/usr/libexec/gconfd-2
/usr/share/GConf
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.GConf.service
/usr/share/dbus-1/system-services/org.gnome.GConf.Defaults.service
/usr/share/doc/GConf2
/usr/share/doc/GConf2/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/GConf2/README
/usr/share/licenses/GConf2
/usr/share/licenses/GConf2/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en@shaw/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/km/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/yi/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/GConf2.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/gconftool-2.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gsettings-data-convert.1.gz
/usr/share/polkit-1/actions/org.gnome.gconf.defaults.policy
/usr/share/sgml
/usr/share/sgml/gconf
/usr/share/sgml/gconf/gconf-1.0.dtd
/var/lib/rpm-state/gconf

References

[GConf2 website](http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/ http://projects.gnome.org/gconf/)

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install GConf2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.