How To Install stow-doc on CentOS 8
stow-doc is Documentation for Stow
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on CentOS 8.
What is stow-doc
This package contains the documentation for GNU Stow.
We can use yum or dnf to install stow-doc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install stow-doc.
Install stow-doc 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 stow-doc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install stow-doc
Install stow-doc 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 stow-doc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install stow-doc
How To Uninstall stow-doc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the stow-doc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove stow-doc
stow-doc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-single.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Bootstrapping.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Conflicts.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Cygnus-Software.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Deferred-Operation.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Deleting-Packages.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/GNU-Emacs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/GNU-General-Public-License.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Index.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Installing-Packages.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Introduction.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Invoking-Stow.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Known-Bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Mixing-Operations.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Multiple-Stow-Directories.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Other-FSF-Software.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Reporting-Bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Resource-Files.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Target-Maintenance.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Terminology.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Tree-unfolding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/index.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/tree-folding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/tree-refolding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual.pdf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.