How To Install argparse-manpage on CentOS 8

argparse-manpage is Build manual page from Python ArgumentParser object

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.