How To Install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8.
What is gnome-shell-extension-common
GNOME Shell Extensions is a collection of extensions providing additional and optional functionality to GNOME Shell. This package provides common data files shared by various extensions.
We can use yum or dnf to install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-shell-extension-common.
Install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gnome-shell-extension-common using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gnome-shell-extension-common
Install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8 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-shell-extension-common using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gnome-shell-extension-common
How To Uninstall gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the gnome-shell-extension-common package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gnome-shell-extension-common
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-shell-extension-common on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.