How To Install txt2man on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install txt2man on CentOS 8.
What is txt2man
tx2man is a shell script using gnu awk, that should run on any Unix-like system. The syntax of the ASCII text is very straightforward and looks very much like the output of the man(1) program.
We can use yum or dnf to install txt2man on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install txt2man.
Install txt2man on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install txt2man using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install txt2man
Install txt2man on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install txt2man using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install txt2man
How To Uninstall txt2man on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the txt2man package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove txt2man
txt2man Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/bookman
/usr/bin/src2man
/usr/bin/txt2man
/usr/share/doc/txt2man
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/README
/usr/share/man/man1/bookman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/src2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/txt2man.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install txt2man on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
