How to install Gnome Desktop Environment on Manjaro 17.0

This tutorial is going to show you how to install GNOME desktop environment on Manjaro 17.0. As you know, we may install multiple desktop environment on top of a distribution. For example, we can run Budgie Desktop and GNOME together. So we can choose which one to use. Its pretty simple and straight forward to install GNOME on Manjaro 17.0.

Steps to install GNOME on Manjaro 17.0

Step 1. Update Manjaro

To update Manjaro, execute this command on Terminal

sudo pacman -Syu

Step 2. Install GNOME

Use this command to install gnome and gnome extra packages

sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-extra

Output example:

[dhani@dhani-manjaro ~]$ sudo pacman -S gnome gnome-extra[sudo] password for dhani: :: There are 47 members in group gnome::: Repository extra 1) adwaita-icon-theme 2) baobab 3) empathy 4) eog 5) epiphany 6) evince 7) gdm 8) gdm-plymouth 9) gnome-backgrounds 10) gnome-calculator 11) gnome-contacts 12) gnome-control-center 13) gnome-dictionary 14) gnome-disk-utility 15) gnome-font-viewer 16) gnome-keyring 17) gnome-screenshot 18) gnome-session 19) gnome-settings-daemon 20) gnome-shell 21) gnome-shell-extensions 22) gnome-system-monitor 23) gnome-terminal 24) gnome-themes-standard 25) gnome-user-docs 26) gnome-user-share 27) grilo-plugins 28) gtk3-print-backends 29) gucharmap 30) gvfs 31) gvfs-afc 32) gvfs-goa 33) gvfs-google 34) gvfs-gphoto2 35) gvfs-mtp 36) gvfs-nfs 37) gvfs-smb 38) mousetweaks 39) mutter 40) nautilus 41) networkmanager 42) sushi 43) totem 44) tracker 45) vino 46) xdg-user-dirs-gtk 47) yelp
Enter a selection (default=all):

Press enter to install all packages. Follow on screen installation wizard until it completed. Please note that this step requires internet connection. Make sure you are connected to the internet.