How To Install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 8.
What is geany-plugins-addons
This plugins consists of various small addons too small to justify their own plugin, but are useful to have. The following functionality is implemented * Document list offers a menu listing all open files plus the ‘Close All’ and ‘Close Other Documents’ menu items. This can be useful to quickly access open files and switch to them. * Open and Copy URI menu when the word under the cursor looks like a URI. ‘Open URI’ uses the browser command configured in Geany to open it. * Tasks lines with configurable keywords (e.g. “TODO” or “FIXME”) in them. It collects the text after those words and puts them in a new “Tasks” tab in the message window. Clicking on a task in that tab takes you to the line in the file where the task was defined. * Systray a simple popup menu with some basic actions. It can also be used to quickly show and hide the Geany main window. * Bookmark list This list contains all bookmarks defined in the current file for faster overview and access. * Mark Word searched and then highlighted (similar to Geany’s ‘Mark All’ Find option). * Strip trailing blank lines lines from the document when it is saved. If you have ‘Ensure new line at file end’ option checked in Preferences, one trailing newline will be left. * XML tagging selection, offering a little dialog for inserting a tag and replacing a selection.
We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-addons.
Install geany-plugins-addons 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-plugins-addons using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-addons
Install geany-plugins-addons 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-plugins-addons using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-addons
How To Uninstall geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geany-plugins-addons package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-addons
geany-plugins-addons Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8
/usr/lib/.build-id/e8/59e52dd278cb95fa7adbac44650bd1c0aea83f
/usr/lib64/geany/addons.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/addons/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.