How To Install antiword on Fedora 34

antiword is MS Word to ASCII/Postscript converter

Introduction

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

What is `antiword`

Antiword is a free MS-Word reader for Linux, BeOS and RISC OS. It converts the documents from Word 6, 7, 97 and 2000 to ASCII and Postscript. Antiword tries to keep the layout of the document intact.

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

Install antiword 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 antiword using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install antiword

Install antiword 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 antiword using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install antiword

How To Uninstall antiword on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove antiword

antiword Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/antiword
/usr/bin/antiword.bin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d
/usr/lib/.build-id/2d/8d8c784146b4bebcc63024e565c2c4d576c71d
/usr/share/antiword
/usr/share/antiword/8859-1.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-10.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-11.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-13.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-14.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-15.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-16.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-2.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-3.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-4.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-5.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-6.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-7.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-8.txt
/usr/share/antiword/8859-9.txt
/usr/share/antiword/Default
/usr/share/antiword/Example
/usr/share/antiword/MacCyrillic.txt
/usr/share/antiword/MacRoman.txt
/usr/share/antiword/UTF-8.txt
/usr/share/antiword/Unicode01
/usr/share/antiword/Unicode15
/usr/share/antiword/cp1250.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp1251.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp1252.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp437.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp850.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp852.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp862.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp864.txt
/usr/share/antiword/cp866.txt
/usr/share/antiword/fontnames
/usr/share/antiword/fontnames.russian
/usr/share/antiword/koi8-r.txt
/usr/share/antiword/koi8-u.txt
/usr/share/antiword/roman.txt
/usr/share/doc/antiword
/usr/share/doc/antiword/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/antiword/Emacs
/usr/share/doc/antiword/Exmh
/usr/share/doc/antiword/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/antiword/History
/usr/share/doc/antiword/Mozilla
/usr/share/doc/antiword/Mutt
/usr/share/doc/antiword/Netscape
/usr/share/doc/antiword/QandA
/usr/share/doc/antiword/ReadMe
/usr/share/doc/antiword/antiword.php
/usr/share/doc/antiword/kantiword
/usr/share/licenses/antiword
/usr/share/licenses/antiword/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/antiword.1.gz

References

antiword website

Summary

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