How To Install doxygen on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxygen on Rocky Linux 8. doxygen is A documentation system for C/C++

Introduction

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

What is doxygen

Doxygen can generate an online class browser (in HTML) and/or a reference manual (in LaTeX) from a set of documented source files. The documentation is extracted directly from the sources. Doxygen can also be configured to extract the code structure from undocumented source files.

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

Install doxygen 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 doxygen using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install doxygen

Install doxygen 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 doxygen using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install doxygen

How To Uninstall doxygen on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove doxygen

doxygen Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/doxygen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef
/usr/lib/.build-id/ef/bcf21846899cce8b82e0710e0160f90f9113ef
/usr/share/doc/doxygen
/usr/share/doc/doxygen/LANGUAGE.HOWTO
/usr/share/doc/doxygen/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/doxygen
/usr/share/licenses/doxygen/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/doxygen.1.gz

References

Summary

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