How To Install hicolor-icon-theme on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is hicolor-icon-theme

Contains the basic directories and files needed for icon theme support.

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

Install hicolor-icon-theme on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install hicolor-icon-theme using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install hicolor-icon-theme

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

sudo dnf -y install hicolor-icon-theme

How To Uninstall hicolor-icon-theme on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove hicolor-icon-theme

References

• hicolor-icon-theme website

Summary

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