How To Install yelp-tools on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install yelp-tools on CentOS 8.
What is yelp-tools
yelp-tools is a collection of scripts and build utilities to help create, manage, and publish documentation for Yelp and the web. Most of the heavy lifting is done by packages like yelp-xsl and itstool. This package just wraps things up in a developer-friendly way.
We can use yum or dnf to install yelp-tools on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install yelp-tools.
Install yelp-tools 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 yelp-tools using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install yelp-tools
Install yelp-tools 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 yelp-tools using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install yelp-tools
How To Uninstall yelp-tools on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the yelp-tools package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove yelp-tools
yelp-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/yelp-build
/usr/bin/yelp-check
/usr/bin/yelp-new
/usr/share/aclocal/yelp.m4
/usr/share/doc/yelp-tools
/usr/share/doc/yelp-tools/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/yelp-tools/README
/usr/share/licenses/yelp-tools
/usr/share/licenses/yelp-tools/COPYING
/usr/share/licenses/yelp-tools/COPYING.GPL
/usr/share/yelp-tools
/usr/share/yelp-tools/templates
/usr/share/yelp-tools/templates/task.page
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/comments.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-epub.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-files.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-license.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-ncx.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-opf.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-rng.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/mal-status.xsl
/usr/share/yelp-tools/xslt/media.xsl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install yelp-tools on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
