How To Install mutter on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Rocky Linux 8. mutter is Window and compositing manager based on Clutter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `mutter`

Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used stand-alone, it is primarily intended to be used as the display core of a larger system such as GNOME Shell. For this reason, Mutter is very extensible via plugins, which are used both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window management behaviors to meet the needs of the environment.

We can use yum or dnf to install mutter on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mutter.

Install mutter on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mutter using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install mutter

Install mutter on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mutter using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mutter

How To Uninstall mutter on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the mutter package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove mutter

mutter Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/mutter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/09
/usr/lib/.build-id/09/d7a2ecef5bc6c6d80838c57ee9c1baffb0931a
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d
/usr/lib/.build-id/0d/9dbe563c5127a65eaa79fbeece13e1829e967b
/usr/lib/.build-id/18
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/5692398425f7fb8e73d65ceb9401b8d3474db7
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c
/usr/lib/.build-id/1c/3a1ed32d992c14e833bad6700b5b8fc3171036
/usr/lib/.build-id/28
/usr/lib/.build-id/28/d599ac9dc3abc52520d56bc89a44310e85ead6
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/0c4d501e1c453be3c83d988aa5e08705218d20
/usr/lib/.build-id/70
/usr/lib/.build-id/70/7b505d7b5a8c62929b9e29777e2c5d377dbbaa
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/e85ad1b5189fd93957df7f50fad771616c35ed
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4
/usr/lib/.build-id/f4/0e18dddb1bcb2a4859d559434236b2fd9dacb6
/usr/lib64/libmutter-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmutter-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Cally-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Cally-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Clutter-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Clutter-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/ClutterX11-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/ClutterX11-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Cogl-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Cogl-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/CoglPango-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/CoglPango-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Meta-4.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/Meta-4.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/plugins
/usr/lib64/mutter-4/plugins/libdefault.so
/usr/libexec/mutter-restart-helper
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/mutter-schemas.convert
/usr/share/applications/mutter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mutter
/usr/share/doc/mutter/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.wayland.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-navigation.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-system.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-wayland.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-windows.xml
/usr/share/licenses/mutter
/usr/share/licenses/mutter/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mutter.1.gz
/usr/bin/mutter
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/9676ae50875ec3624a33821cc31c284aea5705
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/6f3780501eb682108479301227419a65005dca
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/usr/lib/.build-id/48/b8add2d482171038b061782982bb3274632583
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/usr/lib/.build-id/4c/1f43b3fd92d21d323cde247671ea9dc60c6fd8
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/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/05cd9ba91c5ec0a048221b9afc4b55f1f9d5bc
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2
/usr/lib/.build-id/f2/837d2416a0e4aa99b05dd9701770c1f374351b
/usr/lib/libmutter-4.so.0
/usr/lib/libmutter-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Cally-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Cally-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Clutter-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Clutter-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/ClutterX11-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/ClutterX11-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Cogl-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Cogl-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/CoglPango-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/CoglPango-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Meta-4.gir
/usr/lib/mutter-4/Meta-4.typelib
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-clutter-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-gles2-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-pango-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/libmutter-cogl-path-4.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib/mutter-4/plugins
/usr/lib/mutter-4/plugins/libdefault.so
/usr/libexec/mutter-restart-helper
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/mutter-schemas.convert
/usr/share/applications/mutter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mutter
/usr/share/doc/mutter/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.wayland.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-navigation.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-system.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-wayland.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-windows.xml
/usr/share/licenses/mutter
/usr/share/licenses/mutter/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
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/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mutter.1.gz

References

mutter website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.