How To Install geany-plugin-doc on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-doc on Kali Linux. geany-plugin-doc is documentation plugin for Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-doc on Kali Linux.

What is geany-plugin-doc

geany-plugin-doc is:

Geanydoc is a plugin for the Geany IDE which is intended to be used to search for documentation API from different sources. It allows execution of specified commands on the current word at the cursor position or otherwise specified via a dialog to obtain this documentation. This documentation is displayed in the geany buffer as a tab called DOC, or may be displayed in an external program.

After installing this package, you’ll need to enable the “Doc” plugin and then setup a keyword binding for it in Geany’s preferences dialogue.

Geany is a small and lightweight integrated development environment using the GTK+ toolkit.

There are three methods to install geany-plugin-doc on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install geany-plugin-doc Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-doc using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install geany-plugin-doc

Install geany-plugin-doc Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-doc using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install geany-plugin-doc

Install geany-plugin-doc Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude on Kali Linux first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Kali Linux. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install geany-plugin-doc using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install geany-plugin-doc

How To Uninstall geany-plugin-doc on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the geany-plugin-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove geany-plugin-doc

Uninstall geany-plugin-doc And Its Dependencies

To uninstall geany-plugin-doc and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove geany-plugin-doc

Remove geany-plugin-doc Configurations and Data

To remove geany-plugin-doc configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge geany-plugin-doc

Remove geany-plugin-doc configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove geany-plugin-doc configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge geany-plugin-doc

Dependencies

geany-plugin-doc have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugin-doc package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.