How To Install control-center on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install control-center on CentOS 7. control-center is Utilities to configure the GNOME desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install control-center on CentOS 7.

What is control-center

This package contains configuration utilities for the GNOME desktop, which allow to configure accessibility options, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other settings. This package contains configuration utilities for the GNOME desktop, which allow to configure accessibility options, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other settings.

We can use yum or dnf to install control-center on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install control-center.

Install control-center on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install control-center

Install control-center on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install control-center

How To Uninstall control-center on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the control-center package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove control-center

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install control-center on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.