How To Install unoconv on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install unoconv on CentOS 8.
What is unoconv
Universal Office Converter (unoconv) is a command line tool to convert any document format that LibreOffice can import to any document format that LibreOffice can export. It makes use of the LibreOffice’s UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. Supported document formats include Open Document Format (.odg, .odp, .ods, .odt), MS Word (.doc), MS Office Open/MS OOXML (.docx, .pptx, .xlsx), PDF, HTML, RTF, and many more.
We can use yum or dnf to install unoconv on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install unoconv.
Install unoconv 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 unoconv using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install unoconv
Install unoconv 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 unoconv using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install unoconv
How To Uninstall unoconv on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the unoconv package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove unoconv
unoconv Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/unoconv
/usr/share/doc/unoconv
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/README.html
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/errcode.html
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/filters.html
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/formats.html
/usr/share/doc/unoconv/selinux.html
/usr/share/licenses/unoconv
/usr/share/licenses/unoconv/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/unoconv.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install unoconv on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.