How To Install gnome-common on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common in Fedora 36. gnome-common is Useful things common to building GNOME packages from scratch

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common on Fedora 36.

What is `gnome-common`

This package contains sample files that should be used to develop pretty much every GNOME application. The programs included here are not needed for running GNOME apps or building ones from distributed tarballs. They are only useful for compiling from git sources or when developing the build infrastructure for a GNOME application.

We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-common on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-common.

Install gnome-common on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-common

Install gnome-common on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-common

How To Uninstall gnome-common on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the gnome-common package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-common

gnome-common Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gnome-autogen.sh
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-code-coverage.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-common.m4
/usr/share/aclocal/gnome-compiler-flags.m4
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/gnome-common/README
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-common
/usr/share/licenses/gnome-common/COPYING

References

gnome-common website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-common on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).