How To Install system-menus.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-menus.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. system-menus.noarch is Configuration and data files for the desktop menus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-menus.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `system-menus.noarch`

This package contains the XML files that describe the menu layout for GNOME and KDE, and the .desktop files that define the names and icons of “subdirectories” in the menus.

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

Install system-menus.noarch 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 system-menus.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install system-menus.noarch

How To Uninstall system-menus.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the system-menus.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove system-menus.noarch

system-menus.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/etc/xdg/menus
/etc/xdg/menus/applications-merged
/etc/xdg/menus/applications.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/documentation.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/preferences-merged
/etc/xdg/menus/preferences-post-merged
/etc/xdg/menus/preferences.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/server-settings.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/settings-merged
/etc/xdg/menus/settings.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/start-here.menu
/etc/xdg/menus/system-settings.menu
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Accessories-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Advanced-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Advanced.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/AllPrograms.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Desktop.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Development-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Documentation-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Documentation.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Edutainment.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Games-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Graphics-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Internet-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Multimedia-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Office-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Root.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Sawfish.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/ServerConfig-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/ServerConfig.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Settings-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/System-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/SystemConfig-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/SystemConfig.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Utilities-More.directory
/usr/share/desktop-directories/Utilities.directory
/usr/share/doc/system-menus-12.0.2
/usr/share/doc/system-menus-12.0.2/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/af/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/am/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ar/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/as/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/bn_IN/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/cy/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/en_GB/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/et/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/fa/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/gu/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/hi/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/hy/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ilo/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/is/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ka/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/kn/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ko/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ku/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/lo/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/lt/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/lv/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/mk/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ml/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/mr/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/my/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/nso/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/or/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/pa/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/si/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sk/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sq/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr@latin/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/te/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/th/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/ur/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo
/usr/share/locale/zu/LC_MESSAGES/system-menus.mo

References

system-menus.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install system-menus.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.