How To Install gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 is Desktop file for wayland based gnome session

Introduction

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

What is gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64

Desktop file to add GNOME on wayland to display manager session menu.

We can use yum to install gnome-session-wayland-session.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-session-wayland-session.x86_64.

Install gnome-session-wayland-session.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-session-wayland-session.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64

gnome-session-wayland-session.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/wayland-sessions/gnome-wayland.desktop

References

Summary

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