How to install gnome-shell-extensions in Fedora 19?

Question

I want to install a GNOME extension into Fedora 19. I've been using this command:

$ yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status

But it wasn't able to find the package. I tried adding this to the repository file, but it doesn't seem to work.

[fedora-gnome-shell-extensions]
name=Modify and extend GNOME Shell functionality and behavior
baseurl=http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/hien/gnome-shell-extensions/fedora-$releasever/$basearch/
enabled=1
skip_if_unavailable=1
gpgcheck=0

Solution 1

I wouldn't be using that repository with Fedora 19. Those packages were built for Fedora 15.

excerpt from the repos page

gnome-shell-extensions Modify and extend GNOME Shell functionality and behavior hien fedora-15

I found the RPM you're looking for here in the Development repository, specifically here for the gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu package.

I do not have a F19 install to confirm this but I believe you need to either enable the "Development" repository or the "Update-Testing" repo.

A command like this would do it:

$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable development
$ sudo yum-config-manager --enable updates-testing

Solution 2

The only problem here, I think, is that the package name has an extra word on the end, -menu, which is left out of your original command.

As @slm notes, you don't really want that repo file, since it's old and unmaintained. But, it appears that the package you want is in Fedora. Just do yum install gnome-shell-extension-alternative-status-menu and you should be all set.

Alternately, you can go to https://extensions.gnome.org/ and search for Alternative Status Menu, from which you will find this page; there, click the on-off switch at the top left of the page and it will be downloaded into your own home directory (as opposed to installed system wide) and activated.