How To Install halibut on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on CentOS 8.
What is halibut
Halibut is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs a variety of formats, planned to include text, HTML, Texinfo, Windows Help, Windows HTMLHelp, PostScript and PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible.
We can use yum or dnf to install halibut on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install halibut.
Install halibut 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 halibut using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install halibut
Install halibut 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 halibut using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install halibut
How To Uninstall halibut on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the halibut package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove halibut
halibut Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/halibut
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab
/usr/lib/.build-id/ab/52662343badee75b4e2385038c686e6fb1d118
/usr/share/doc/halibut
/usr/share/doc/halibut/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/IndexPage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/index.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/input.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/licence.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/manpage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/output.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/html/running.html
/usr/share/man/man1/halibut.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.