How To Install gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons on CentOS 8

gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons is Desktop icons support for the classic experience

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.