How To Install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 7. geany-plugins-addons is Miscellaneous Addons for Geany

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 7.

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 when clicked 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 the editor menu when the word under the cursor looks like a URI. ‘Open URI’ uses the browser command configured in Geany to open it. * Tasks picks out 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 and provides a simple popup menu with some basic actions. It can also be used to quickly show and hide the Geany main window. * Bookmark list the sidebar. This list contains all bookmarks defined in the current file for faster overview and access. * Mark Word word are searched and then highlighted (similar to Geany’s ‘Mark All’ Find option). * Strip trailing blank lines trailing blank 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 checking for a 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 CentOS 7. 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 CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install geany-plugins-addons

Install geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

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

sudo dnf -y install geany-plugins-addons

How To Uninstall geany-plugins-addons on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.