How To Install rarian on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian
on CentOS 8.
What is rarian
Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper. rarian 0.8.1 19.el8 x86_64 107 k rarian-0.8.1-19.el8.src.rpm appstream Documentation meta-data library http LGPLv2+ Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install rarian
on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rarian.
Install rarian 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 rarian
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install rarian
Install rarian 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 rarian
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install rarian
How To Uninstall rarian on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the rarian
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove rarian
rarian Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/9372fb42f2bb7fbb0fde6407dc11429a8e674a
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b
/usr/lib/.build-id/2b/249ae9bb858adb95f65d8ad350e55c6071c8cd
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml
/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/55
/usr/lib/.build-id/55/b8f080a858570105c8eef0e5248134ff230f56
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd
/usr/lib/.build-id/dd/3a33cc0f8522f3fd901133bc9a6e7f3d9e91c0
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml
References
- [rarian website](http://rarian.freedesktop.org/ http://rarian.freedesktop.org/)
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian
on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.