How To Install geany-plugins-common on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-common is Common files used by all geany plugins

Introduction

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

What is geany-plugins-common

This package contains some common files which are used by every Geany plugin, e.g. language translations.

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

Install geany-plugins-common 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-common using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-common

Install geany-plugins-common 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-common using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-common

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-common on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-common

geany-plugins-common Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/54
/usr/lib/.build-id/54/5b9929398634596c5c52583c1b4015d219de61
/usr/lib64/libgeanypluginutils.so
/usr/lib64/libgeanypluginutils.so.0
/usr/lib64/libgeanypluginutils.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/README
/usr/share/geany-plugins
/usr/share/locale/be/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/kk/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/geany-plugins.mo

References

Summary

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