How To Install rsyntaxtextarea on Fedora 34

rsyntaxtextarea is A syntax highlighting, code folding text editor for Java Swing applications

Introduction

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

What is rsyntaxtextarea

RSyntaxTextArea is a customizable, syntax highlighting text component for Java Swing applications. Out of the box, it supports syntax highlighting for 40+ programming languages, code folding, search and replace, and has add-on libraries for code completion and spell checking. Syntax highlighting for additional languages can be added via tools such as JFlex.

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

Install rsyntaxtextarea 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 rsyntaxtextarea using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rsyntaxtextarea

Install rsyntaxtextarea 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 rsyntaxtextarea using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rsyntaxtextarea

How To Uninstall rsyntaxtextarea on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rsyntaxtextarea

rsyntaxtextarea Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/rsyntaxtextarea
/usr/share/doc/rsyntaxtextarea/readme.txt
/usr/share/java/rsyntaxtextarea
/usr/share/java/rsyntaxtextarea/rsyntaxtextarea.jar
/usr/share/licenses/rsyntaxtextarea
/usr/share/licenses/rsyntaxtextarea/RSyntaxTextArea.License.txt
/usr/share/maven-metadata/rsyntaxtextarea.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/rsyntaxtextarea
/usr/share/maven-poms/rsyntaxtextarea/rsyntaxtextarea.pom

References

Summary

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