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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:

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:

$ su
# yum install gnome-utils -y

And that's it!

22 comments:

Anonymous said...: Thanks!; 27 November, 2012 19:02
Anonymous said...: Great :); 30 January, 2013 12:09
Anonymous said...: thanks; 05 March, 2013 13:28
Anonymous said...: Thanks ..; 28 June, 2013 11:49
Anonymous said...: Thank you, it just worked; 17 August, 2013 02:19
Anonymous said...: Thanks, that helps a lot; 23 August, 2013 20:04
Anonymous said...: Thanks, it solved.
Manikandan K; 30 September, 2013 08:44
Anonymous said...: post really very helpful
thanks; 09 October, 2013 05:25
Anonymous said...: THANKS!!; 20 October, 2013 11:03
Anonymous said...: thanks its working; 31 October, 2013 11:05
Anonymous said...: Thanks Its working now; 13 November, 2013 11:30
Anonymous said...: This post is very helpful
Thanks; 21 January, 2014 14:12
Anonymous said...: thanks :); 07 January, 2015 11:24
Anonymous said...: Thanks, works for me.

very helpful post

:); 08 January, 2015 08:54
Anonymous said...: 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.; 11 February, 2015 13:05
tangram said...: @ 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.; 11 February, 2015 13:30
Saminda Konkaduwa said...: Thank you...; 01 May, 2015 05:32
Unknown said...: thankyou very much; 18 January, 2016 14:30
Davidson Lima said...: Perfect! It worked! Now I'm able to take screenshoots.; 08 March, 2017 13:08
caposar said...: Muchas Gracias.; 31 January, 2018 19:19
caposar said...: Muchas Gracias.; 31 January, 2018 19:20
Anonymous said...: Thanks, worked first try; 20 January, 2020 22:14