How To Install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8.
What is argparse-manpage
Generate manual page an automatic way from ArgumentParser object, so the manpage 1 manpage generator needs to known the location of the object, user can specify that by (a) the module name or corresponding python filename and (b) the object name or the function name which returns the object. There is a limited support for (deprecated) optparse objects, too.
We can use yum or dnf to install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install argparse-manpage.
Install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install argparse-manpage using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install argparse-manpage
Install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install argparse-manpage using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install argparse-manpage
How To Uninstall argparse-manpage on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the argparse-manpage package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove argparse-manpage
argparse-manpage Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/argparse-manpage
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/hack.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/__pycache__/hack.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/build_manpages/cli/hack.py
/usr/share/licenses/argparse-manpage
/usr/share/licenses/argparse-manpage/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/argparse-manpage.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.