How To Install nedit on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install nedit on Rocky Linux 8. nedit is A GUI text editor for systems with X

Introduction

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

What is nedit

NEdit is a GUI text editor for the X Window System. NEdit is very easy to use, especially if you are familiar with the Macintosh or Microsoft Windows style of interface.

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

Install nedit 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 nedit using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install nedit

Install nedit 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 nedit using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install nedit

How To Uninstall nedit on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove nedit

nedit Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/nedit
/usr/bin/nedit-client
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c
/usr/lib/.build-id/8c/5b1234514d93708bd001447532f1b32b7f61fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5
/usr/lib/.build-id/a5/16d29bf0215fecf591f8cbf61c47d261a9f975
/usr/share/applications/nedit.desktop
/usr/share/doc/nedit
/usr/share/doc/nedit/README
/usr/share/doc/nedit/ReleaseNotes
/usr/share/icons/hicolor
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/nedit.png
/usr/share/man/man1/nedit-client.1x.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/nedit.1x.gz

References

Summary

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