Information about the package, gnome-desktop, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The gnome-desktop package is designed for, Shared code among gnome-panel, gnome-session, nautilus, etc.
Package Name:
gnome-desktop
Summary:
Shared code among gnome-panel, gnome-session, nautilus, etc
URL:
Description:
The gnome-desktop package contains an internal library (libgnomedesktop) used to implement some portions of the GNOME desktop, and also some data files and other shared components of the GNOME user environment.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2.28.2
Release:
11.el6.centos
Size:
988 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+ and LGPLv2+
Control the gnome-desktop package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install gnome-desktop
This command will install gnome-desktop on the server.
yum remove gnome-desktop
This command will un-install gnome-desktop on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-desktop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove gnome-desktop
This command will un-install gnome-desktop 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-desktop when using the -y flag.
yum update gnome-desktop
This command will update gnome-desktop to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove gnome-desktop, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update gnome-desktop
This command will update gnome-desktop 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-desktop when using the -y flag.
yum info gnome-desktop
This command will show you core information about the gnome-desktop package.
yum deplist gnome-desktop
This command will show you the dependencies for gnome-desktop. 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-desktop
This command will check if there is an update waiting on gnome-desktop. 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.