How To Install mutter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mutter.x86_64 is Window and compositing manager based on Clutter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mutter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mutter.x86_64`

Mutter is a window and compositing manager that displays and manages your desktop via OpenGL. Mutter combines a sophisticated display engine using the Clutter toolkit with solid window-management logic inherited from the Metacity window manager. While Mutter can be used stand-alone, it is primarily intended to be used as the display core of a larger system such as GNOME Shell. For this reason, Mutter is very extensible via plugins, which are used both to add fancy visual effects and to rework the window management behaviors to meet the needs of the environment.

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

Install mutter.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 mutter.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mutter.x86_64

How To Uninstall mutter.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mutter.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mutter.x86_64

mutter.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/mutter
/usr/lib64/libmutter-2.so.0
/usr/lib64/libmutter-2.so.0.0.0
/usr/lib64/mutter
/usr/lib64/mutter/Cally-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/Cally-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/Clutter-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/Clutter-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/ClutterX11-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/ClutterX11-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/Cogl-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/Cogl-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/CoglPango-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/CoglPango-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/Meta-2.gir
/usr/lib64/mutter/Meta-2.typelib
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-clutter-2.la
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-clutter-2.so
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-2.la
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-2.so
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-pango-2.la
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-pango-2.so
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-path-2.la
/usr/lib64/mutter/libmutter-cogl-path-2.so
/usr/lib64/mutter/plugins
/usr/lib64/mutter/plugins/default.so
/usr/libexec/mutter-restart-helper
/usr/share/GConf/gsettings/mutter-schemas.convert
/usr/share/applications/mutter.desktop
/usr/share/doc/mutter-3.28.3
/usr/share/doc/mutter-3.28.3/NEWS
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.gschema.xml
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.mutter.wayland.gschema.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-navigation.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-system.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-wayland.xml
/usr/share/gnome-control-center/keybindings/50-mutter-windows.xml
/usr/share/licenses/mutter-3.28.3
/usr/share/licenses/mutter-3.28.3/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ast/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/az/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/be@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/br/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/bs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca@valencia/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/dz/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_CA/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/fur/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gd/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ha/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ig/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/la/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mai/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nds/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ne/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/oc/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tg/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/ug/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/wa/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/xh/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/yo/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_HK/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/mutter.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/mutter.1.gz

References

mutter.x86_64 website

Summary

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