How To Install gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7.
What is gtksourceview2
GtkSourceView is a text widget that extends the standard GTK+ GtkTextView widget. It improves GtkTextView by implementing syntax highlighting and other features typical of a source code editor. This package contains version 2 of GtkSourceView. The older version 1 is contains in the gtksourceview package.
We can use yum or dnf to install gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install gtksourceview2.
Install gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install gtksourceview2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install gtksourceview2
Install gtksourceview2 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 gtksourceview2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install gtksourceview2
How To Uninstall gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the gtksourceview2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove gtksourceview2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install gtksourceview2 on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.