How To Install mg on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mg on CentOS 8.
What is mg
mg is a tiny, mostly public-domain Emacs-like editor included in the base OpenBSD system. It is compatible with Emacs because there shouldn’t be any reason to learn more editor types than Emacs or vi.
We can use yum or dnf to install mg on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mg.
Install mg 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 mg using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mg
Install mg 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 mg using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mg
How To Uninstall mg on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mg package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mg
mg Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mg
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/46
/usr/lib/.build-id/46/a920807564bb36f89d8c47a9e359a2660fbf6a
/usr/share/doc/mg
/usr/share/doc/mg/README
/usr/share/doc/mg/tutorial
/usr/share/man/man1/mg.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mg on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.