How To Install gnome-online-accounts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-online-accounts on CentOS 7. gnome-online-accounts is Single sign-on framework for GNOME

Introduction

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

What is gnome-online-accounts

GNOME Online Accounts provides interfaces so that applications and libraries in GNOME can access the user’s online accounts. It has providers for Google, ownCloud, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Microsoft Account, Pocket, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP/SMTP and Kerberos. GNOME Online Accounts provides interfaces so that applications and libraries in GNOME can access the user’s online accounts. It has providers for Google, ownCloud, Facebook, Flickr, Foursquare, Microsoft Account, Pocket, Microsoft Exchange, IMAP/SMTP and Kerberos.

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

Install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-online-accounts

Install gnome-online-accounts 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-online-accounts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gnome-online-accounts

How To Uninstall gnome-online-accounts on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove gnome-online-accounts

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Summary

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