How To Install geany-plugins-vimode on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-vimode on CentOS 8.
What is geany-plugins-vimode
Vimode is a Vim-mode plugin for Geany written by a guy who does not use Vim. Expect problems unexpected by a Vim user and, please, report them. Despite the limited Vim knowledge of the author, the plugin tries to be a reasonably complete Vim mode implementation featuring * normal mode, insert/replace mode, visual mode, line visual mode * repeated commands (e.g. 10dd - delete 10 lines) * “motion” commands (e.g. d10l - delete 10 characters to the right) * “text object” commands (e.g. di( - delete inner contents of parentheses) * visual mode commands (e.g. ~ to swap case of the selected text) * basic ex mode commands like * most basic navigation, selection and text manipulation commands * command repetition using “.” and repeated insert
We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-vimode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-vimode.
Install geany-plugins-vimode 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-vimode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-vimode
Install geany-plugins-vimode 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-vimode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-vimode
How To Uninstall geany-plugins-vimode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the geany-plugins-vimode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-vimode
geany-plugins-vimode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/5c/0daf573507b22e7fdf4908e29a5febc8412e61
/usr/lib64/geany/vimode.so
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany-plugins/vimode/README
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-vimode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.