How To Install argparse-manpage on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install argparse-manpage on Rocky Linux 8. argparse-manpage is Build manual page from Python ArgumentParser object

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install argparse-manpage on Rocky Linux 8.

What is argparse-manpage

Generate manual page an automatic way from ArgumentParser object, so the manpage 1 manpage generator needs to known the location of the object, user can specify that by (a) the module name or corresponding python filename and (b) the object name or the function name which returns the object. There is a limited support for (deprecated) optparse objects, too.

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

Install argparse-manpage 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 argparse-manpage using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install argparse-manpage

Install argparse-manpage 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 argparse-manpage using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install argparse-manpage

How To Uninstall argparse-manpage on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the argparse-manpage package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove argparse-manpage

argparse-manpage Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/argparse-manpage
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/hack.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/hack.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/hack.py
/usr/share/licenses/argparse-manpage
/usr/share/licenses/argparse-manpage/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/argparse-manpage.1.gz

References

Summary

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