How To Install evince-nautilus on CentOS 8

evince-nautilus is Evince extension for nautilus

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install evince-nautilus on CentOS 8.

What is evince-nautilus

This package contains the evince extension for the nautilus file manager. It adds an additional tab called “Document” to the file properties dialog.

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

Install evince-nautilus 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 evince-nautilus using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install evince-nautilus

Install evince-nautilus 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 evince-nautilus using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install evince-nautilus

How To Uninstall evince-nautilus on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the evince-nautilus package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove evince-nautilus

evince-nautilus Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/59
/usr/lib/.build-id/59/728e1a4d05374efbfe26177dc1c092b92eb716
/usr/lib64/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libevince-properties-page.so

References

Summary

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