How To Install docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8. docbook2X is Convert docbook into man and Texinfo

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `docbook2X`

docbook2X converts DocBook documents into man pages and Texinfo documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install docbook2X.

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install docbook2X

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install docbook2X

How To Uninstall docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the docbook2X package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove docbook2X

docbook2X Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2man
/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi
/usr/bin/db2x_manxml
/usr/bin/db2x_texixml
/usr/bin/db2x_xsltproc
/usr/bin/sgml2xml-isoent
/usr/bin/utf8trans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/71
/usr/lib/.build-id/71/2398c4793afb313501b8f9a0d03e2644251c05
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/README
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/changes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/charsets.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/cindex.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_manxml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_texixml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_xsltproc.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/dependencies.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/design-notes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2X.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2man.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2texi.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/install.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/manpages.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/performance.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/sgml2xml-isoent.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/testing.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/texinfo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/todo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/utf8trans.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/xsltproc.html
/usr/share/docbook2X
/usr/share/docbook2X/VERSION
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Man-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Texi-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/charmap.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_manxml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_texixml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-html-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/check-idref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/cmdsynopsis.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/gentext.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/l10n.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/labels.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/messages.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/person.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/af.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/bg.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ca.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/cs.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/da.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/de.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/el.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/en.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/es.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/et.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/eu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/he.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/hu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/id.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/it.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ja.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ko.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/l10n-set.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/lt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/no.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt-br.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ro.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ru.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sv.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/th.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/tr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/uk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/vi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/xh.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-cn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-tw.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/titles.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/ucase.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/version.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/whitespace.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/xref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/autotoc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/biblio.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/callout.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/chunk.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/component.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/division.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/footnote.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/force-inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/graphics.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/jrefentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/math.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/menudescrip.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/qandaset.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texifile.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode-base.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/xref.xsl
/usr/share/info/docbook2X.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2man-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2texi-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_manxml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_texixml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_xsltproc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sgml2xml-isoent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/utf8trans.1.gz

References

docbook2X website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.