How To Install icon-naming-utils on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install icon-naming-utils on CentOS 7. icon-naming-utils is A script to handle icon names in desktop icon themes

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install icon-naming-utils on CentOS 7.

What is icon-naming-utils

A script for creating a symlink mapping for deprecated icon names to the new Icon Naming Specification names, for desktop icon themes.

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

Install icon-naming-utils on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install icon-naming-utils

Install icon-naming-utils 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 icon-naming-utils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install icon-naming-utils

How To Uninstall icon-naming-utils on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the icon-naming-utils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove icon-naming-utils

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Summary

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