How To Install docbook2X on CentOS 8

docbook2X is Convert docbook into man and Texinfo

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on CentOS 8.

What is `docbook2X`

docbook2X converts DocBook documents into man pages and Texinfo documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install docbook2X on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install docbook2X.

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install docbook2X

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install docbook2X

How To Uninstall docbook2X on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the docbook2X package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove docbook2X

docbook2X Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2man
/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi
/usr/bin/db2x_manxml
/usr/bin/db2x_texixml
/usr/bin/db2x_xsltproc
/usr/bin/sgml2xml-isoent
/usr/bin/utf8trans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/af
/usr/lib/.build-id/af/ca9a17f0e10d41b0d08931b4407a958ef1bb5f
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/README
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/changes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/charsets.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/cindex.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_manxml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_texixml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_xsltproc.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/dependencies.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/design-notes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2X.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2man.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2texi.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/install.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/manpages.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/performance.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/sgml2xml-isoent.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/testing.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/texinfo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/todo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/utf8trans.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/xsltproc.html
/usr/share/docbook2X
/usr/share/docbook2X/VERSION
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Man-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Texi-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/charmap.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_manxml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_texixml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-html-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/check-idref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/cmdsynopsis.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/gentext.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/l10n.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/labels.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/messages.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/person.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/af.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/bg.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ca.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/cs.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/da.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/de.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/el.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/en.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/es.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/et.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/eu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/he.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/hu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/id.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/it.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ja.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ko.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/l10n-set.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/lt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/no.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt-br.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ro.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ru.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sv.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/th.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/tr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/uk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/vi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/xh.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-cn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-tw.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/titles.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/ucase.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/version.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/whitespace.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/xref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/autotoc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/biblio.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/callout.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/chunk.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/component.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/division.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/footnote.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/force-inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/graphics.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/jrefentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/math.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/menudescrip.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/qandaset.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texifile.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode-base.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/xref.xsl
/usr/share/info/docbook2X.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2man-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2texi-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_manxml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_texixml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_xsltproc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sgml2xml-isoent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/utf8trans.1.gz

References

docbook2X website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.