How To Install textern on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install textern
on Rocky Linux 8.
What is textern
Textern is a Firefox add-on that allows you to edit text areas in web pages using an external editor. It is similar in functionality to the popular It’s All Text! add-on, though makes use of the WebExtension API and is thus fully compatible with multiprocessing and supported beyond Firefox 57. This is not a self-standing Firefox add-on, it’s only the “native” application used by Add-on named “textern”. Please install the Add-on manually.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install textern
on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install textern.
Install textern on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install textern
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install textern
Install textern on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install textern
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install textern
How To Uninstall textern on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the textern
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove textern
textern Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/textern.json
/usr/libexec/textern
/usr/libexec/textern/textern.py
/usr/share/doc/textern
/usr/share/doc/textern/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/textern
/usr/share/licenses/textern/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install textern
on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.