How To Install discount on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install discount on Rocky Linux 8. discount is A command-line utility for converting Markdown files into HTML

Introduction

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

What is discount

DISCOUNT is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown language in C. It includes all of the original Markdown features, along with a few extensions, and passes the Markdown test suite.

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

Install discount 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 discount using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install discount

Install discount 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 discount using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install discount

How To Uninstall discount on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove discount

discount Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/discount-makepage
/usr/bin/discount-mkd2html
/usr/bin/discount-theme
/usr/bin/markdown
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f4b906876ed1fbdbf3644c0b0b6f9d5af2d17f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/6680900dd82bd1d68e93acd0e5e2c1ab7eea48
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/2bd8f10a1a239f4daa8507625e00e582d68725
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/14ddfa6ba99c53c0a6f3689924347b110b5b46
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-makepage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-mkd2html.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-theme.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/markdown.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/markdown.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mkd-extensions.7.gz

References

Summary

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