How To Install root-html on CentOS 8

root-html is HTML documentation generator for ROOT

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install root-html on CentOS 8.

What is root-html

This package contains classes to automatically extract documentation from marked up sources.

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

Install root-html 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 root-html using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install root-html

Install root-html 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 root-html using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install root-html

How To Uninstall root-html on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the root-html package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove root-html

root-html Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/include/root/TClassDocOutput.h
/usr/include/root/TDocDirective.h
/usr/include/root/TDocInfo.h
/usr/include/root/TDocOutput.h
/usr/include/root/TDocParser.h
/usr/include/root/THtml.h
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/ac059811f366b8bcb5999b15cf7e1a664fbd26
/usr/lib64/root/libHtml.rootmap
/usr/lib64/root/libHtml.so
/usr/lib64/root/libHtml.so.6.22
/usr/lib64/root/libHtml.so.6.22.08
/usr/lib64/root/libHtml_rdict.pcm
/usr/share/root/html
/usr/share/root/html/HELP.html
/usr/share/root/html/ROOT.css
/usr/share/root/html/ROOT.js
/usr/share/root/html/footer.html
/usr/share/root/html/header.html
/usr/share/root/html/saveScriptOutput.C
/usr/share/root/html/shadow.gif
/usr/share/root/html/shadowAlpha.png

References

Summary

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