Tuesday, July 17, 2012

Tip: Fixing "gnome-screenshot" (No such file or directory) on CentOS 6.3

While pressing Prnt Scrn to take a window screenshot I got awarded with "cool" Metacity message window stating the following:

  1. There was an error running gnome-screenshot:Failed to execute child process "gnome-screenshot" (No such file or directory)

I'm running a fresh CentOS 6.3 system installed using the x86_64 Live CD which shortly after installing it noticed that it didn't came with Disk Usage Analyzer. Putting the error message and the missing application points the problem to the package that provides both gnome-utils.

To fix the problem and also install the other missing applications:
 
  1. $ su
  2. # yum install gnome-utils -y

And that's it!
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22 comments:

  1. Anonymous27 November, 2012 19:02

    Thanks!

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  2. Anonymous30 January, 2013 12:09

    Great :)

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  3. Anonymous05 March, 2013 13:28

    thanks

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  4. Anonymous28 June, 2013 11:49

    Thanks ..

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  5. Anonymous17 August, 2013 02:19

    Thank you, it just worked

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  6. Anonymous23 August, 2013 20:04

    Thanks, that helps a lot

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  7. Anonymous30 September, 2013 08:44

    Thanks, it solved.
    Manikandan K

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  8. Anonymous09 October, 2013 05:25

    post really very helpful
    thanks

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  9. Anonymous20 October, 2013 11:03

    THANKS!!

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  10. Anonymous31 October, 2013 11:05

    thanks its working

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  11. Anonymous13 November, 2013 11:30

    Thanks Its working now

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  12. Anonymous21 January, 2014 14:12

    This post is very helpful
    Thanks

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  13. Anonymous07 January, 2015 11:24

    thanks :)

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  14. Anonymous08 January, 2015 08:54

    Thanks, works for me.

    very helpful post

    :)

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  15. Anonymous11 February, 2015 13:05

    Error Downloading Packages:
    1:gnome-utils-libs-2.28.1-10.el6.x86_64: failure: ../Packages/gnome-utils-libs-2.28.1-10.el6.x86_64.rpm from dvd-source: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.
    1:gnome-utils-2.28.1-10.el6.x86_64: failure: ../Packages/gnome-utils-2.28.1-10.el6.x86_64.rpm from dvd-source: [Errno 256] No more mirrors to try.

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  16. tangram11 February, 2015 13:30

    @ Shantanu

    I'm not your tech guy so if you expect any help at least bother to greet those that might help.

    After reading your post I'm not motivated enough to help especially with a trivial error message that you could have interpreted yourself you actually bothered to read it for 1 minute.

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  17. Saminda Konkaduwa01 May, 2015 05:32

    Thank you...

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  18. Unknown18 January, 2016 14:30

    thankyou very much

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  19. Davidson Lima08 March, 2017 13:08

    Perfect! It worked! Now I'm able to take screenshoots.

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  20. caposar31 January, 2018 19:19

    Muchas Gracias.

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  21. caposar31 January, 2018 19:20

    Muchas Gracias.

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  22. Anonymous20 January, 2020 22:14

    Thanks, worked first try

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