How To Install gnome-icon-theme-legacy on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-icon-theme-legacy on CentOS 7. gnome-icon-theme-legacy is Old names for icons in gnome-icon-theme

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-icon-theme-legacy on CentOS 7.

What is gnome-icon-theme-legacy

This package contains symlinks to make the icons in gnome-icon-theme available under old names.

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

Install gnome-icon-theme-legacy 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-icon-theme-legacy using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-icon-theme-legacy

Install gnome-icon-theme-legacy 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-icon-theme-legacy using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-icon-theme-legacy

How To Uninstall gnome-icon-theme-legacy on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the gnome-icon-theme-legacy package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gnome-icon-theme-legacy

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Summary

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