How To Install geany-devel on CentOS 8

geany-devel is Header files for building Geany plug-ins

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-devel on CentOS 8.

What is geany-devel

This package contains the header files and pkg-config file needed for building Geany plug-ins. You do not need to install this package to use Geany.

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

Install geany-devel 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-devel using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-devel

Install geany-devel 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-devel using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-devel

How To Uninstall geany-devel on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove geany-devel

geany-devel Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/geany
/usr/include/geany/app.h
/usr/include/geany/build.h
/usr/include/geany/dialogs.h
/usr/include/geany/document.h
/usr/include/geany/editor.h
/usr/include/geany/encodings.h
/usr/include/geany/filetypes.h
/usr/include/geany/geany.h
/usr/include/geany/geanyfunctions.h
/usr/include/geany/geanyplugin.h
/usr/include/geany/gtkcompat.h
/usr/include/geany/highlighting.h
/usr/include/geany/keybindings.h
/usr/include/geany/main.h
/usr/include/geany/msgwindow.h
/usr/include/geany/navqueue.h
/usr/include/geany/plugindata.h
/usr/include/geany/pluginutils.h
/usr/include/geany/prefs.h
/usr/include/geany/project.h
/usr/include/geany/scintilla
/usr/include/geany/scintilla/SciLexer.h
/usr/include/geany/scintilla/Sci_Position.h
/usr/include/geany/scintilla/Scintilla.h
/usr/include/geany/scintilla/Scintilla.iface
/usr/include/geany/scintilla/ScintillaWidget.h
/usr/include/geany/sciwrappers.h
/usr/include/geany/search.h
/usr/include/geany/spawn.h
/usr/include/geany/stash.h
/usr/include/geany/support.h
/usr/include/geany/symbols.h
/usr/include/geany/tagmanager
/usr/include/geany/tagmanager/tm_parser.h
/usr/include/geany/tagmanager/tm_source_file.h
/usr/include/geany/tagmanager/tm_tag.h
/usr/include/geany/tagmanager/tm_workspace.h
/usr/include/geany/templates.h
/usr/include/geany/toolbar.h
/usr/include/geany/ui_utils.h
/usr/include/geany/utils.h
/usr/lib64/pkgconfig/geany.pc
/usr/share/doc/geany-devel
/usr/share/doc/geany-devel/HACKING
/usr/share/doc/geany-devel/TODO

References

Summary

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