How To Install scdoc on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install scdoc on CentOS 8.
What is scdoc
scdoc is a tool designed to make the process of writing man pages more friendly. It reads scdoc syntax from stdin and writes roff to stdout, suitable for reading with man.
We can use yum or dnf to install scdoc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install scdoc.
Install scdoc 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 scdoc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install scdoc
Install scdoc 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 scdoc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install scdoc
How To Uninstall scdoc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the scdoc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove scdoc
scdoc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/scdoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc
/usr/lib/.build-id/fc/35e911515888ebf5eb25fe5d84d54e260d003f
/usr/share/doc/scdoc
/usr/share/doc/scdoc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/scdoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/scdoc.5.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig/scdoc.pc
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install scdoc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.