How To Install geany-plugins-latex on CentOS 8

geany-plugins-latex is LaTeX support for Geany

Introduction

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

What is geany-plugins-latex

This plugin improves LaTeX support in Geany. It provides several templates for new documents, help with adding labels and inserting special characters, and much more.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-latex

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

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-latex

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-latex on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-latex

geany-plugins-latex Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd
/usr/lib/.build-id/bd/72b5a63e0f2b5cb49916533bd7942bf832e594
/usr/lib64/geany/latex.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/README
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/bibtex_reference.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/insert_environment.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/insert_label.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/insert_reference.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/insert_usepackage.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex.css
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex.html
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex.pdf
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex.tex
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex2.html
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex3.html
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latex4.html
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/latexwizard.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/plugin_manager.png
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/latex/toolbar.png

References

Summary

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