How To Install texinfo on CentOS 8
texinfo is Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on CentOS 8.
What is texinfo
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
We can use yum or dnf to install texinfo on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo.
Install texinfo 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 texinfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texinfo
Install texinfo 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 texinfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texinfo
How To Uninstall texinfo on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texinfo
texinfo Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/makeinfo
/usr/bin/pod2texi
/usr/bin/texi2any
/usr/share/doc/texinfo
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/README
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/TODO
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_AT/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/no.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pod2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2any.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/texinfo.5.gz
/usr/share/texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo/DebugTree.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Common.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/DocBook.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXIN.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXINSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Line.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/NodeNameNormalization.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Paragraph.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/PlainTexinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Text.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TextContent.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/UnFilled.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Unicode.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Documentlanguages.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Encoding.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/MiscXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ModulePath.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Transformations.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf
/usr/share/texinfo/init
/usr/share/texinfo/init/book.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/chm.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/html32.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/latex2html.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/tex4ht.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/texindex.awk
/usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.dtd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.