How To Install gnome-desktop on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-desktop on CentOS 7. gnome-desktop is Shared code among gnome-panel, gnome-session, nautilus, etc

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-desktop on CentOS 7.

What is `gnome-desktop`

The gnome-desktop package contains an internal library (libgnomedesktop) used to implement some portions of the GNOME desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the GNOME user environment.

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

Install gnome-desktop on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install gnome-desktop

Install gnome-desktop 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 gnome-desktop using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-desktop

How To Uninstall gnome-desktop on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gnome-desktop

References

gnome-desktop website

Summary

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