How To Install asciidoc on Fedora 34

asciidoc is Text based document generation

Introduction

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

What is asciidoc

AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.

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

Install asciidoc 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 asciidoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install asciidoc

Install asciidoc 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 asciidoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install asciidoc

How To Uninstall asciidoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove asciidoc

asciidoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/asciidoc
/etc/asciidoc/asciidoc.conf
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex
/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/etc/asciidoc/docbook45.conf
/etc/asciidoc/docbook5.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz2png.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source/source-highlight-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/unwraplatex.py
/etc/asciidoc/help.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html4.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html5.conf
/etc/asciidoc/images
/etc/asciidoc/javascripts
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ca.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-cs.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-de.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-el.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-en.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-es.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fi.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fr.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-hu.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-id.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-it.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ja.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-nl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pt-BR.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ro.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ru.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-sv.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-uk.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-zh-CN.conf
/etc/asciidoc/latex.conf
/etc/asciidoc/slidy.conf
/etc/asciidoc/stylesheets
/etc/asciidoc/text.conf
/etc/asciidoc/themes
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask/flask.css
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky/volnitsky.css
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11-quirks.conf
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11.conf
/usr/bin/a2x
/usr/bin/a2x.py
/usr/bin/asciidoc
/usr/bin/asciidoc.py
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-39.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-39.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.9/site-packages/asciidocapi.py
/usr/share/asciidoc
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/chunked.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/common.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/epub.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/text.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/images
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/README
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/1.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/10.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/11.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/12.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/13.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/14.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/15.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/2.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/3.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/4.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/5.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/6.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/7.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/8.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/9.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/caution.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/example.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/home.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/important.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/next.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/note.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/prev.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/tip.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/up.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/warning.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/ASCIIMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/LaTeXMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/asciidoc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/slidy.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/toc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/asciidoc.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/docbook-xsl.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/pygments.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/slidy.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/toc2.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/xhtml11-quirks.css
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/BUGS.txt
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/CHANGELOG.txt
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/README.asciidoc
/usr/share/man/man1/a2x.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/asciidoc.1.gz

References

Summary

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