How To Install actdiag on Fedora 34

actdiag is Actdiag generates activity-diagram images from text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install actdiag on Fedora 34.

What is actdiag

actdiag and its family generate diagram images from simply text file. Features - Generates beautiful diagram images from simple text format (similar to graphviz’s DOT format) - Layouts diagram elements automatically - Embeds to many documentations; Sphinx, Trac, Redmine and some wikis - Supports many types of diagrams - activity diagram (with this package) - block diagram (with the blockdiag package) - sequence diagram (with the seqdiag package) - logical network diagram (with the nwdiag package) Enjoy documentation with actdiag !

We can use yum or dnf to install actdiag on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install actdiag.

Install actdiag on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install actdiag using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install actdiag

Install actdiag on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install actdiag using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install actdiag

How To Uninstall actdiag on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the actdiag package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove actdiag

actdiag Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/actdiag
/usr/share/doc/actdiag
/usr/share/doc/actdiag/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/actdiag
/usr/share/licenses/actdiag/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/actdiag.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install actdiag on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.