How To Install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8.
What is geany-plugins-addons
This plugins consists of various small addons too small to justify their own plugin, but are useful to have. The following functionality is implemented * Document list offers a menu listing all open files plus the ‘Close All’ and ‘Close Other Documents’ menu items. This can be useful to quickly access open files and switch to them. * Open and Copy URI menu when the word under the cursor looks like a URI. ‘Open URI’ uses the browser command configured in Geany to open it. * Tasks lines with configurable keywords (e.g. “TODO” or “FIXME”) in them. It collects the text after those words and puts them in a new “Tasks” tab in the message window. Clicking on a task in that tab takes you to the line in the file where the task was defined. * Systray a simple popup menu with some basic actions. It can also be used to quickly show and hide the Geany main window. * Bookmark list This list contains all bookmarks defined in the current file for faster overview and access. * Mark Word searched and then highlighted (similar to Geany’s ‘Mark All’ Find option). * Strip trailing blank lines lines from the document when it is saved. If you have ‘Ensure new line at file end’ option checked in Preferences, one trailing newline will be left. * XML tagging selection, offering a little dialog for inserting a tag and replacing a selection.
We can use yum or dnf to install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install geany-plugins-addons.
Install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-addons using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-addons
Install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install geany-plugins-addons using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-addons
How To Uninstall geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the geany-plugins-addons package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove geany-plugins-addons
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.
