How To Install mandoc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on CentOS 8.
What is mandoc
mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UTF-8 and ASCII UNIX terminals, HTML 5, PostScript, and PDF.
We can use yum or dnf to install mandoc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mandoc.
Install mandoc 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 mandoc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mandoc
Install mandoc 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 mandoc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mandoc
How To Uninstall mandoc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the mandoc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mandoc
mandoc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/apropos.mandoc
/usr/bin/demandoc
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/man.mandoc
/usr/bin/mandoc
/usr/bin/soelim
/usr/bin/soelim.mandoc
/usr/bin/whatis
/usr/bin/whatis.mandoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/97
/usr/lib/.build-id/97/b6d4bfd929d4e534c16ada4bfbb566ed6dd801
/usr/lib/.build-id/db
/usr/lib/.build-id/db/07da4ec5f9006a61bfd3abb35a17680c246acf
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7
/usr/lib/.build-id/f7/0f35f83db7604f53b2b96540830717dfa003fc
/usr/sbin/makewhatis
/usr/sbin/makewhatis.mandoc
/usr/share/licenses/mandoc
/usr/share/licenses/mandoc/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/demandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/soelim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/soelim.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whatis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whatis.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mandoc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mandoc.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/eqn.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/eqn.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/roff.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/roff.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tbl.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tbl.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makewhatis.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makewhatis.mandoc.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
