How To Install geany on Fedora 34

geany is A fast and lightweight IDE using GTK3

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany on Fedora 34.

What is geany

Geany is a small and fast integrated development environment with basic features and few dependencies to other packages or Desktop Environments. Some features - Syntax highlighting - Code completion - Code folding - Construct completion/snippets - Auto-closing of XML and HTML tags - Call tips - Support for Many languages like C, Java, PHP, HTML, Python, Perl, Pascal - symbol lists and symbol name auto-completion - Code navigation - Simple project management - Plugin interface

We can use yum or dnf to install geany on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany.

Install geany on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geany using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install geany

Install geany on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install geany using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install geany

How To Uninstall geany on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove geany

geany Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/geany
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/20
/usr/lib/.build-id/20/4ebc524381c2781a1441885c1ca20ad4e68564
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/69a409e37a4850b87e819df69af84b3b305360
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/7be24a822895d6c87256935eb872fa65c0c56d
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/3fe3ff40654b8605c2c89e3864717f9edcbd5c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8e/c99919947bbd2022a0afd054032563efea9292
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae
/usr/lib/.build-id/ae/65be82bc9506a8a988e892121b007f5f3fbd47
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb
/usr/lib/.build-id/cb/dbe0506b6fe1b40e1c87d2e983ec6ccf2ff641
/usr/lib64/geany
/usr/lib64/geany/classbuilder.so
/usr/lib64/geany/export.so
/usr/lib64/geany/filebrowser.so
/usr/lib64/geany/htmlchars.so
/usr/lib64/geany/saveactions.so
/usr/lib64/geany/splitwindow.so
/usr/share/appdata/geany.appdata.xml
/usr/share/applications/geany.desktop
/usr/share/doc/geany
/usr/share/doc/geany/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/geany/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/geany/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/geany/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/geany/README
/usr/share/doc/geany/ScintillaLicense.txt
/usr/share/doc/geany/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/geany/html
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/build_menu_commands_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/find_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/find_in_files_dialog.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/main_window.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_edit_completions.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_gen_misc.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_gen_startup.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_interface_interface.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_interface_toolbar.png
/usr/share/doc/geany/html/images/pref_dialog_keys.png
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/usr/share/doc/geany/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/geany/manual.txt
/usr/share/geany
/usr/share/geany/GPL-2
/usr/share/geany/colorschemes
/usr/share/geany/colorschemes/alt.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Arduino.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.CUDA.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Clojure.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Cython.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Genie.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Graphviz.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Groovy.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.JSON.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Kotlin.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Nim.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Scala.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.Swift.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.TypeScript.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.abaqus
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.abc
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.actionscript
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/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asciidoc
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.asm
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/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.bibtex
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/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.coffeescript
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.common
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.conf
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cpp
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.cs
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.css
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.d
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.diff
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.docbook
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.erlang
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.f77
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.ferite
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.forth
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.fortran
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.freebasic
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.glsl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.go
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.haskell
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.haxe
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.html
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.java
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.javascript
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.latex
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.lisp
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.lua
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.makefile
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.markdown
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.matlab
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.nsis
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.objectivec
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.pascal
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.perl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.php
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.po
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.powershell
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.python
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.r
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.restructuredtext
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.ruby
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.rust
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.sh
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.smalltalk
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.sql
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.tcl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.txt2tags
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.vala
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.verilog
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.vhdl
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.xml
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.yaml
/usr/share/geany/filedefs/filetypes.zephir
/usr/share/geany/filetype_extensions.conf
/usr/share/geany/geany-3.0.css
/usr/share/geany/geany-3.20.css
/usr/share/geany/geany.css
/usr/share/geany/geany.glade
/usr/share/geany/snippets.conf
/usr/share/geany/tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/entities.html.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.pas.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.php.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std.py.tags
/usr/share/geany/tags/std99.c.tags
/usr/share/geany/templates
/usr/share/geany/templates/bsd
/usr/share/geany/templates/changelog
/usr/share/geany/templates/fileheader
/usr/share/geany/templates/files
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.html
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.php
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.rb
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file.tex
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/file_html5.html
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.c
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.cxx
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.d
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.java
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.py
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/main.vala
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/module.erl
/usr/share/geany/templates/files/program.pas
/usr/share/geany/templates/function
/usr/share/geany/templates/gpl
/usr/share/geany/ui_toolbar.xml
/usr/share/icons/Tango/16x16/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/24x24/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/32x32/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/48x48/actions/geany-save-all.png
/usr/share/icons/Tango/scalable/actions/geany-save-all.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/geany-build.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/geany-close-all.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/actions/geany-save-all.png
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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.