How To Install rarian on Fedora 34

rarian is Documentation meta-data library Documentation meta-data library

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian on Fedora 34.

What is rarian

Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper. rarian 0.8.1 27.fc34 x86_64 104 k rarian-0.8.1-27.fc34.src.rpm fedora Documentation meta-data library http LGPLv2+ Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper.

We can use yum or dnf to install rarian on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rarian.

Install rarian on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install rarian

Install rarian on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install rarian

How To Uninstall rarian on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove rarian

rarian Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/3548860272be973d41948b5e76d943def669e5
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c3/2fd56fc5cbc769602dd00a5ad566ef0d95a3ef
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml
/usr/share/licenses/rarian
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/cbfbffe14f6108b71e2b82460e8b5df8bf78c3
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/58200c8779ac0b59d8cbc05e83f86bf65b1b6f
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml
/usr/share/licenses/rarian
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/licenses/rarian/COPYING.UTILS

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.