How To Install gedit on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit
on CentOS 7.
What is gedit
gedit is a small, but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME desktop. It has most standard text editor functions and fully supports international text in Unicode. Advanced features include syntax highlighting and automatic indentation of source code, printing and editing of multiple documents in one window. gedit is extensible through a plugin system, which currently includes support for spell checking, comparing files, viewing CVS ChangeLogs, and adjusting indentation levels. Further plugins can be found in the gedit-plugins package. gedit is a small, but powerful text editor designed specifically for the GNOME desktop. It has most standard text editor functions and fully supports international text in Unicode. Advanced features include syntax highlighting and automatic indentation of source code, printing and editing of multiple documents in one window. gedit is extensible through a plugin system, which currently includes support for spell checking, comparing files, viewing CVS ChangeLogs, and adjusting indentation levels. Further plugins can be found in the gedit-plugins package.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install gedit
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gedit.
Install gedit on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install gedit
using yum
by running the following command:
Install gedit 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.
After updating yum database, We can install gedit
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall gedit on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gedit
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gedit
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.