How To Install gedit-plugin-smartspaces on CentOS 8

gedit-plugin-smartspaces is gedit smartspaces plugin

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-plugin-smartspaces on CentOS 8.

What is gedit-plugin-smartspaces

The gedit smartspaces plugin.

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

Install gedit-plugin-smartspaces 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 gedit-plugin-smartspaces using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install gedit-plugin-smartspaces

Install gedit-plugin-smartspaces 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 gedit-plugin-smartspaces using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install gedit-plugin-smartspaces

How To Uninstall gedit-plugin-smartspaces on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the gedit-plugin-smartspaces package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove gedit-plugin-smartspaces

gedit-plugin-smartspaces Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/__pycache__/smartspaces.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/__pycache__/smartspaces.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/smartspaces.plugin
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/smartspaces.py
/usr/share/appdata/gedit-smartspaces.metainfo.xml

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit-plugin-smartspaces on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.