How To Install nano on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nano on Rocky Linux 8. nano is A small text editor

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install nano on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `nano`

GNU nano is a small and friendly text editor.

We can use yum or dnf to install nano on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install nano.

Install nano on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nano using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nano

Install nano on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install nano using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nano

How To Uninstall nano on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the nano package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove nano

nano Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/nanorc
/usr/bin/nano
/usr/bin/rnano
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/01
/usr/lib/.build-id/01/8003f94a9a28da7ceb3f57641cbb4eb86586cb
/usr/share/doc/nano
/usr/share/doc/nano/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/nano/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/nano/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/nano/INSTALL
/usr/share/doc/nano/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/nano/README
/usr/share/doc/nano/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/nano/TODO
/usr/share/doc/nano/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/nano/nano.html
/usr/share/doc/nano/sample.nanorc
/usr/share/info/nano.info.gz
/usr/share/locale/bg/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/eu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ga/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/gl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ms/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/nn/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/nano.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/nano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/rnano.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/nanorc.5.gz
/usr/share/nano
/usr/share/nano/asm.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/autoconf.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/awk.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/c.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/changelog.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/cmake.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/css.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/debian.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/default.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/elisp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/fortran.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/gentoo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/go.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/groff.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/guile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/html.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/java.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/javascript.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/json.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/lua.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/makefile.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/man.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mgp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/mutt.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanohelp.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nanorc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/nftables.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/objc.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ocaml.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/patch.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/perl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/php.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/po.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/postgresql.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/pov.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/python.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/ruby.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/rust.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/sh.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/spec.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tcl.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/tex.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/texinfo.nanorc
/usr/share/nano/xml.nanorc

References

nano website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install nano on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.