How To Install tagsoup on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install tagsoup on Rocky Linux 8. tagsoup is A SAX-compliant HTML parser written in Java

Introduction

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

What is `tagsoup`

TagSoup is a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a rational application design. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML.

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

Install tagsoup 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 tagsoup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tagsoup

Install tagsoup 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 tagsoup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tagsoup

How To Uninstall tagsoup on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove tagsoup

tagsoup Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/tagsoup
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/README
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/tagsoup.txt
/usr/share/java/tagsoup.jar
/usr/share/licenses/tagsoup
/usr/share/licenses/tagsoup/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/tagsoup.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/tagsoup.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/tagsoup.pom

References

tagsoup website

Summary

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