How To Install rubygem-ronn on CentOS 8

rubygem-ronn is Manual authoring tool

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-ronn on CentOS 8.

What is rubygem-ronn

Ronn builds manuals. It converts simple, human readable text files to roff for terminal display, and also to HTML for the web. The source format includes all of Markdown but has a more rigid structure and syntax extensions for features commonly found in man pages (definition lists, link notation, etc.). The ronn-format(7) manual page defines the format in detail.

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

Install rubygem-ronn 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 rubygem-ronn using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rubygem-ronn

Install rubygem-ronn 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 rubygem-ronn using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rubygem-ronn

How To Uninstall rubygem-ronn on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the rubygem-ronn package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rubygem-ronn

rubygem-ronn Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/ronn
/usr/share/gems/cache/ronn-0.7.3.gem
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/AUTHORS
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/CHANGES
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/COPYING
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/README.md
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/bin
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/bin/ronn
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/document.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/index.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/roff.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/server.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template.rb
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/80c.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/dark.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/darktoc.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/default.html
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/man.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/print.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/screen.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/template/toc.css
/usr/share/gems/gems/ronn-0.7.3/lib/ronn/utils.rb
/usr/share/gems/specifications/ronn-0.7.3.gemspec
/usr/share/man/man1/ronn.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/ronn-format.7.gz

References

Summary

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