Information about the package, gnome-common, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gnome-common package is designed for, Useful things common to building gnome packages from scratch.
Package Name:
gnome-common
Summary:
Useful things common to building gnome packages from scratch
Description:
This package contains sample files that should be used to develop pretty much every GNOME application. The programs included here are not needed for running gnome apps or building ones from distributed tarballs. They are only useful for compiling from CVS sources or when developing the build infrastructure for a GNOME application.
Architecture:
noarch
Version:
2.28.0
Release:
1.1.el6
Size:
126 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2
Control the gnome-common package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gnome-common
This command will install gnome-common on the server.
yum remove gnome-common
This command will un-install gnome-common on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gnome-common
This command will un-install gnome-common 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 gnome-common when using the -y flag.
yum update gnome-common
This command will update gnome-common to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-common, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gnome-common
This command will update gnome-common 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 gnome-common when using the -y flag.
yum info gnome-common
This command will show you core information about the gnome-common package.
yum deplist gnome-common
This command will show you the dependencies for gnome-common. 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 gnome-common
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gnome-common. 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.