How To Install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 is PackageKit package installer

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64

A graphical package installer for PackageKit which is used to manage software not shown in GNOME Software.

We can use yum to install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64.

Install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64

gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/gpk-application
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Packages.desktop
/usr/share/man/man1/gpk-application.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Packages.appdata.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-packagekit-installer.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.