How To Install halibut on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on Rocky Linux 8.
What is halibut
Halibut is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs a variety of formats, planned to include text, HTML, Texinfo, Windows Help, Windows HTMLHelp, PostScript and PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install halibut on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install halibut.
Install halibut 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 halibut using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install halibut
Install halibut 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 halibut using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install halibut
How To Uninstall halibut on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the halibut package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove halibut
halibut Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/halibut
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/52662343badee75b4e2385038c686e6fb1d118
/usr/share/doc/halibut
/usr/share/doc/halibut/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/IndexPage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/input.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/licence.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/manpage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/output.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/running.html
/usr/share/man/man1/halibut.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
