How To Install discount on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount on CentOS 8.
What is discount
DISCOUNT is an implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown language in C. It includes all of the original Markdown features, along with a few extensions, and passes the Markdown test suite.
We can use yum or dnf to install discount on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install discount.
Install discount 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 discount using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install discount
Install discount 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 discount using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install discount
How To Uninstall discount on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the discount package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove discount
discount Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/discount-makepage
/usr/bin/discount-mkd2html
/usr/bin/discount-theme
/usr/bin/markdown
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/f4b906876ed1fbdbf3644c0b0b6f9d5af2d17f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/6680900dd82bd1d68e93acd0e5e2c1ab7eea48
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/2bd8f10a1a239f4daa8507625e00e582d68725
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/b7/14ddfa6ba99c53c0a6f3689924347b110b5b46
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-makepage.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-mkd2html.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/discount-theme.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/markdown.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/markdown.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mkd-extensions.7.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install discount on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.