How To Install drawing on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install drawing on Rocky Linux 8. drawing is Drawing application for the GNOME desktop

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install drawing on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `drawing`

This application is a basic image editor, similar to Microsoft Paint, but aiming at the GNOME desktop. PNG, JPEG and BMP files are supported. Besides GNOME, some more traditional design layouts are available too, as well as an elementaryOS layout. It should also be compatible with Purism’s Librem 5 phone.

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

Install drawing on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install drawing

Install drawing on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install drawing

How To Uninstall drawing on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove drawing

drawing Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/drawing
/usr/share/applications/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.desktop
/usr/share/doc/drawing
/usr/share/doc/drawing/CONTRIBUTING.md
/usr/share/doc/drawing/README.md
/usr/share/drawing
/usr/share/drawing/drawing
/usr/share/drawing/drawing.gresource
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/__init__.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/abstract_canvas_tool.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/abstract_tool.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/color_popover.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/custom_image.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/gi_composites.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/headerbar.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/image.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/main.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/message_dialog.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/minimap.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/options_manager.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/preferences.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/properties.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/selection_manager.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_arc.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_circle.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_crop.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_flip.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_freeshape.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_line.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_paint.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_pencil.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_picker.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_polygon.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_rectangle.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_rotate.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_saturate.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_scale.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_select.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/tool_text.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/utilities.py
/usr/share/drawing/drawing/window.py
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.gschema.xml
/usr/share/help/C/drawing
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/canvas_tools.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/drawing_tools.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/icon.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_arc.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_menu.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_saturate.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/figures/screenshot_selection.png
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/index.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/legal.xml
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/main_features.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/preferences.page
/usr/share/help/C/drawing/selection_tools.page
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.svg
/usr/share/licenses/drawing
/usr/share/licenses/drawing/LICENSE
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_DE/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/drawing.mo
/usr/share/metainfo/com.github.maoschanz.drawing.appdata.xml

References

drawing website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install drawing on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.