How To Install blockdiag on Fedora 34

blockdiag is Generate block-diagram images from text

Introduction

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

What is blockdiag

blockdiag 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 - block diagram (with this package) - sequence diagram (with the seqdiag package) - activity diagram (with the actdiag package) - logical network diagram (with the nwdiag package) Enjoy documentation with blockdiag !

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

Install blockdiag 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 blockdiag using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blockdiag

Install blockdiag 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 blockdiag using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blockdiag

How To Uninstall blockdiag on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove blockdiag

blockdiag Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/blockdiag
/usr/share/licenses/blockdiag
/usr/share/licenses/blockdiag/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/blockdiag.1.gz

References

Summary

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