How To Install mousepad on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad
on CentOS 7.
What is mousepad
Mousepad aims to be an easy-to-use and fast editor. It’s target is an editor for quickly editing text files, not a development environment or an editor with a huge bunch of plugins. Mousepad is based on Leafpad. The initial reason for Mousepad was to provide printing support, which would have been difficult for Leafpad for various reasons. Although some features are under development, currently Mousepad has following features * Complete support for UTF-8 text * Cut/Copy/Paste and Select All text * Search and Replace * Font selecton * Word Wrap * Character coding selection * Auto character coding detection (UTF-8 and some codesets) * Manual codeset setting * Infinite Undo/Redo by word * Auto Indent * Multi-line Indent * Display line numbers * Drag and Drop * Printing
We can use yum
or dnf
to install mousepad
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mousepad.
Install mousepad on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install mousepad
using yum
by running the following command:
Install mousepad 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 mousepad
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall mousepad on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the mousepad
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mousepad
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.