How To Install vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7.
What is vim-gtk-syntax
A collection of C extension syntax files for xlib, glib (gobject, gio), gdk-pixbuf, gtk2 (gdk2), gtk3 (gdk3), atk, at-spi, pango, cairo, clutter, gimp, gstreamer, dbus-glib, json-glib, libglade, gtksourceview, gnome-desktop, libgsf, libnotify, librsvg, libunique, libwnck, gtkglext, vte, poppler, evince. The xlib one was originally created by Hwanjin Choe (vimscript #570), the others were generated from gtk-doc declaration lists and support enabling/disabling of highlighting of deprecated declarations.
We can use yum or dnf to install vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install vim-gtk-syntax.
Install vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install vim-gtk-syntax using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install vim-gtk-syntax
Install vim-gtk-syntax 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 vim-gtk-syntax using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install vim-gtk-syntax
How To Uninstall vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the vim-gtk-syntax package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove vim-gtk-syntax
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-gtk-syntax on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
