How To Install gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 is Windows fileshare support for gnome-vfs

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64`

This package provides support for reading and writing files on windows shares (SMB) to applications using GNOME VFS.

We can use yum to install gnome-vfs2-smb.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-vfs2-smb.x86_64.

Install gnome-vfs2-smb.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-vfs2-smb.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64

How To Uninstall gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64

gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/smb-module.conf
/usr/lib64/gnome-vfs-2.0/modules/libsmb.so

References

gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gnome-vfs2-smb.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.