< Home - < Back

control-center


Information about the package, control-center, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The control-center package is designed for, Utilities to configure the GNOME desktop.


Package Name:

control-center

Summary:

Utilities to configure the GNOME desktop

Description:

This package contains configuration utilities for the GNOME desktop, which allow to configure accessibility options, desktop fonts, keyboard and mouse properties, sound setup, desktop theme and background, user interface properties, screen resolution, and other settings.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2.28.1

Release:

41.el6

Size:

2.5 M

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+ and GFDL



Handy Yum Commands for control-center


Control the control-center package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install control-center

This command will install control-center on the server.

yum remove control-center

This command will un-install control-center on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove control-center, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove control-center

This command will un-install control-center on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove control-center when using the -y flag.

yum update control-center

This command will update control-center to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove control-center, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update control-center

This command will update control-center to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove control-center when using the -y flag.

yum info control-center

This command will show you core information about the control-center package.

yum deplist control-center

This command will show you the dependencies for control-center. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.

yum check-update control-center

This command will check if there is an update waiting on control-center. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.