How To Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8.
What is gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
This GNOME Shell extension adds desktop icons support as seen in GNOME 2
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons.
Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 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 gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons 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 gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons
gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.shell.extensions.desktop-icons.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/createFolderDialog.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/createThumbnail.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/dbusUtils.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/desktopGrid.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/desktopIconsUtil.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/desktopManager.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/extension.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/fileItem.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/metadata.json
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/prefs.js
/usr/share/gnome-shell/extensions/[email protected]/stylesheet.css
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.