How To Install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-geanydoc is Call documentation from within Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8.

What is geany-plugins-geanydoc

Geanydoc allows you to execute specific commands on the word under the cursor. This word is passed as an argument to the command. The output of the command can either be placed into a special buffer called “DOC” or can be used to execute an external program. Geanydoc is intended to be used for searching through API documentation.

We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-geanydoc.

Install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-geanydoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-geanydoc

Install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-geanydoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-geanydoc

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the geany-plugins-geanydoc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-geanydoc

geany-plugins-geanydoc Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d
/usr/lib/.build-id/7d/ad5246850a29c28f3c4595df0ab05ee30d21ab
/usr/lib64/geany/geanydoc.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanydoc
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanydoc/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanydoc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanydoc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geanydoc/README

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-geanydoc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.