How To Install drawing on CentOS 8

drawing is Drawing application for the GNOME desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drawing on CentOS 8.

What is `drawing`

This application is a basic image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop. PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported. Besides GNOME, some more traditional design layouts are available too, as well as an elementaryOS layout. It should also be compatible with Purism’s Librem 5 phone.

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

Install drawing 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 drawing using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install drawing

Install drawing 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 drawing using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install drawing

How To Uninstall drawing on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the drawing package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove drawing

drawing Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/drawing
/usr/share/applications/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.desktop
/usr/share/doc/drawing
/usr/share/doc/drawing/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/drawing/README.md
/usr/share/drawing
/usr/share/drawing/drawing
/usr/share/drawing/drawing.gresource
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/__init__.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/abstract_canvas_tool.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/abstract_tool.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/color_popover.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/custom_image.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/gi_composites.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/headerbar.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/image.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/main.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/message_dialog.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/minimap.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/options_manager.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/preferences.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/properties.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/selection_manager.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_arc.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_circle.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_crop.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_flip.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_freeshape.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_line.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_paint.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_pencil.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_picker.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_polygon.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_rectangle.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_rotate.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_saturate.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_scale.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_select.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_text.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/utilities.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/window.py
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.gschema.xml
/usr/share/help/C/drawing
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/canvas_tools.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/drawing_tools.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/icon.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_arc.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_menu.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_saturate.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_selection.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/index.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/legal.xml
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/main_features.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/preferences.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/selection_tools.page
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.svg
/usr/share/licenses/drawing
/usr/share/licenses/drawing/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.appdata.xml

References

drawing website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install drawing on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.