How To Install geany-plugins-geniuspaste on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-geniuspaste is Use nopaste services directly from within Geany

Introduction

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

What is geany-plugins-geniuspaste

This plugin allows the user to paste the code from Geany into five different pastebins. At the moment it supports this services * codepad.org * tinypaste.com * pastebin.geany.org * dpaste.de * sprunge.us GeniusPaste detects automatically the syntax of the code and paste it with syntax highlighting enabled. It can also display the pasted code opening a new browser tab.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-geniuspaste

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

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-geniuspaste

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-geniuspaste on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-geniuspaste

geany-plugins-geniuspaste Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/f9/37c5ab8579720879180f9f7aa32ee7644461d0
/usr/lib64/geany/geniuspaste.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geniuspaste
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/README
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/codepad.org.conf
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/dpaste.de.conf
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/fpaste.org.conf
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/paste.debian.net.conf
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/pastebin.geany.org.conf
/usr/share/geany-plugins/geniuspaste/pastebins/sprunge.us.conf

References

Summary

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