How To Install geany on CentOS 8
geany is A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK3
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany on CentOS 8.
What is geany
Geany is a small and fast integrated development environment with basic features and few dependencies to other packages or Desktop Environments. Some features - Syntax highlighting - Code completion - Code folding - Construct completion/snippets - Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags - Call tips - Support for Many languages like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal - symbol lists and symbol name auto-completion - Code navigation - Simple project management - Plugin interface
We can use yum or dnf to install geany on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany.
Install geany 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 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geany
Install geany 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 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geany
How To Uninstall geany on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geany package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geany
geany Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/geany
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/10
/usr/lib/.build-id/10/8f2b3bc20b2f075fb10e5ad97e3427f49c20c7
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d
/usr/lib/.build-id/1d/920cf1ab146a1b923a23a0a10fa7607af0dd6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/24
/usr/lib/.build-id/24/2d87c6cd610d5b15b158fe40dd720e5740a36e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f
/usr/lib/.build-id/2f/34c8eda5214a6170b068091295231bd7c597a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/744974c3cdd3360d4b05735f554c5301593a05
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3
/usr/lib/.build-id/a3/0b4eb9bf9744e7fc46df84337e9d0ef5b9cce5
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/c2d46a2609e5f84e277317ac2ad2994155691e
/usr/lib64/geany
/usr/lib64/geany/classbuilder.so
/usr/lib64/geany/export.so
/usr/lib64/geany/filebrowser.so
/usr/lib64/geany/htmlchars.so
/usr/lib64/geany/saveactions.so
/usr/lib64/geany/splitwindow.so
/usr/share/appdata/geany.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/geany.desktop
/usr/share/doc/geany
/usr/share/doc/geany/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/geany/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany/README
/usr/share/doc/geany/ScintillaLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/geany/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/geany/html
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/build_menu_commands_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/find_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/find_in_files_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/main_window.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_edit_completions.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_edit_features.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_gen_misc.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_gen_startup.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_interface_interface.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_interface_toolbar.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_keys.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_printing.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_templ.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/geany/manual.txt
/usr/share/geany
/usr/share/geany/GPL-2
/usr/share/geany/colorschemes
/usr/share/geany/colorschemes/alt.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Arduino.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.CUDA.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Clojure.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Cython.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Genie.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Graphviz.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Groovy.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.JSON.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Kotlin.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Nim.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Scala.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Swift.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.TypeScript.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.abaqus
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.abc
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.actionscript
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.ada
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asciidoc
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asm
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/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.c
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.caml
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cmake
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cobol
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.coffeescript
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.common
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cpp
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cs
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.css
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.d
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.diff
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.docbook
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.erlang
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.f77
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.ferite
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.forth
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.fortran
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.freebasic
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.glsl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.go
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.haskell
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.haxe
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.html
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.java
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.javascript
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.latex
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.lisp
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.lua
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.makefile
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.markdown
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.matlab
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.nsis
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.objectivec
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.pascal
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.perl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.php
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.po
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.powershell
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.python
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.r
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.restructuredtext
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.ruby
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.rust
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.sh
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.sql
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.tcl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.txt2tags
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.vala
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.verilog
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.vhdl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.xml
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.yaml
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.zephir
/usr/share/geany/filetype_extensions.conf
/usr/share/geany/geany-3.0.css
/usr/share/geany/geany-3.20.css
/usr/share/geany/geany.css
/usr/share/geany/geany.glade
/usr/share/geany/snippets.conf
/usr/share/geany/tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/entities.html.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.pas.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.php.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.py.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std99.c.tags
/usr/share/geany/templates
/usr/share/geany/templates/bsd
/usr/share/geany/templates/changelog
/usr/share/geany/templates/fileheader
/usr/share/geany/templates/files
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.html
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.php
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.rb
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.tex
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file_html5.html
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.c
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.cxx
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.d
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.java
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.py
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.vala
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/module.erl
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/program.pas
/usr/share/geany/templates/function
/usr/share/geany/templates/gpl
/usr/share/geany/ui_toolbar.xml
/usr/share/icons/Tango/16x16/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/24x24/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/32x32/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/48x48/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/actions/geany-save-all.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/geany-build.png
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.