How To Install textern on CentOS 8

textern is Firefox add-on for editing text in your favorite external editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install textern on CentOS 8.

What is `textern`

Textern is a Firefox add-on that allows you to edit text areas in web pages using an external editor. It is similar in functionality to the popular It’s All Text! add-on, though makes use of the WebExtension API and is thus fully compatible with multiprocessing and supported beyond Firefox 57. This is not a self-standing Firefox add-on, it’s only the “native” application used by Add-on named “textern”. Please install the Add-on manually.

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

Install textern 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 textern using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install textern

Install textern 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 textern using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install textern

How To Uninstall textern on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the textern package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove textern

textern Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts
/usr/lib64/mozilla/native-messaging-hosts/textern.json
/usr/libexec/textern
/usr/libexec/textern/textern.py
/usr/share/doc/textern
/usr/share/doc/textern/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/textern
/usr/share/licenses/textern/LICENSE

References

textern website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install textern on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.