How To Install imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 is GSettings support on imsettings

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `imsettings-gsettings.x86_64`

IMSettings is a framework that delivers Input Method settings and applies the changes so they take effect immediately without any need to restart applications or the desktop. This package contains a module to get this working on GNOME and Cinnamon which requires GSettings in their own XSETTINGS daemons.

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

Install imsettings-gsettings.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 imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install imsettings-gsettings.x86_64

How To Uninstall imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove imsettings-gsettings.x86_64

imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib64/imsettings/libimsettings-gsettings.so
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/imsettings-gsettings-1.6.3/README

References

imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install imsettings-gsettings.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.