How To Install texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. texinfo.x86_64 is Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `texinfo.x86_64`

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.

We can use yum to install texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo.x86_64.

Install texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texinfo.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texinfo.x86_64

How To Uninstall texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texinfo.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texinfo.x86_64

texinfo.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/makeinfo
/usr/bin/pod2texi
/usr/bin/texi2any
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/README
/usr/share/doc/texinfo-5.1/TODO
/usr/share/info/texinfo-1.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo-2.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo-3.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.gz
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_AT/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/es.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/no.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pod2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2any.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/texinfo.5.gz
/usr/share/texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo/DebugCount.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo/DebugTree.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Common.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/DocBook.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXIN.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXINSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Line.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/NodeNameNormalization.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Paragraph.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/PlainTexinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Text.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TextContent.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/UnFilled.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Unicode.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Documentlanguages.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Encoding.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf
/usr/share/texinfo/init
/usr/share/texinfo/init/book.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/chm.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/html32.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/latex2html.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/tex4ht.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/lib
/usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth
/usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib
/usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib/Unicode
/usr/share/texinfo/lib/Unicode-EastAsianWidth/lib/Unicode/EastAsianWidth.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.dtd

References

texinfo.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.