How To Install devhelp on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install devhelp on Rocky Linux 8. devhelp is API documentation browser

Introduction

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

What is devhelp

Devhelp is an API documentation browser for the GNOME desktop. It works natively with API documentation generated by gtk-doc.

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

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install devhelp

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install devhelp

How To Uninstall devhelp on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove devhelp

devhelp Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/devhelp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/27
/usr/lib/.build-id/27/b97bb9109711499f0e6ccbcf8ae2f8882c239c
/usr/lib64/gedit
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.plugin
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.py
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Devhelp.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Devhelp.service
/usr/share/devhelp
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.css
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.js
/usr/share/devhelp/books
/usr/share/doc/devhelp
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/devhelp-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/devhelp.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Devhelp.appdata.xml
/usr/bin/devhelp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b
/usr/lib/.build-id/6b/18151714efb2c9882c276a6cb80c20ac3ea5b1
/usr/lib/gedit
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/devhelp.plugin
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/devhelp.py
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Devhelp.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Devhelp.service
/usr/share/devhelp
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.css
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.js
/usr/share/devhelp/books
/usr/share/doc/devhelp
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/README
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/16x16/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/22x22/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/24x24/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/256x256/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/32x32/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/devhelp.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/devhelp-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/devhelp.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Devhelp.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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