How To Install nano on CentOS 8
nano is A small text editor
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install nano on CentOS 8.
What is nano
GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.
We can use yum or dnf to install nano on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nano.
Install nano 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 nano using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install nano
Install nano 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 nano using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install nano
How To Uninstall nano on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the nano package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove nano
nano Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/nanorc
/usr/bin/nano
/usr/bin/rnano
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3
/usr/lib/.build-id/d3/2b98652aa5da556eb5050b473e969e2346df43
/usr/share/doc/nano
/usr/share/doc/nano/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nano/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nano/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nano/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/nano/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nano/README
/usr/share/doc/nano/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/nano/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nano/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/nano/nano.html
/usr/share/doc/nano/sample.nanorc
/usr/share/info/nano.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rnano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/nanorc.5.gz
/usr/share/nano
/usr/share/nano/asm.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/autoconf.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/awk.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/changelog.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/cmake.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/css.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/debian.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/default.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/elisp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/fortran.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/go.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/groff.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/guile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/java.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/javascript.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/json.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/lua.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/makefile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/man.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mgp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mutt.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanohelp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nftables.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/objc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ocaml.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/php.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/po.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/postgresql.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/pov.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/rust.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/spec.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tcl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tex.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/texinfo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/xml.nanorc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install nano on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.