How To Install catdoc on Fedora 34

catdoc is A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text

Introduction

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

What is catdoc

catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for.doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file, and catppt - utility to extract textual information from Powerpoint files

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

Install catdoc 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 catdoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install catdoc

Install catdoc 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 catdoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install catdoc

How To Uninstall catdoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove catdoc

catdoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/catdoc
/usr/bin/catppt
/usr/bin/wordview
/usr/bin/xls2csv
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/49
/usr/lib/.build-id/49/c16f0ac65e185de128e136324a967c9c78059d
/usr/lib/.build-id/63
/usr/lib/.build-id/63/ef6529f39238c5fd97e6fc587c2f31f124e8a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/78
/usr/lib/.build-id/78/547a31abb90dd6aafffd43cdafb46c1be4b4b6
/usr/share/catdoc
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-1.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-10.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-11.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-13.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-14.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-15.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-2.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-3.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-4.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-5.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-6.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-7.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-8.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/8859-9.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/ascii.replchars
/usr/share/catdoc/ascii.specchars
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1250.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1251.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1252.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1253.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1254.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1255.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1256.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1257.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp1258.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp437.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp850.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp852.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp855.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp857.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp860.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp861.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp862.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp863.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp864.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp865.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp866.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp869.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/cp874.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/koi8-r.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/koi8-u.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-arabic.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-centeuro.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-cyrillic.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-greek.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-hebrew.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/mac-roman.txt
/usr/share/catdoc/tex.replchars
/usr/share/catdoc/tex.specchars
/usr/share/catdoc/us-ascii.txt
/usr/share/doc/catdoc
/usr/share/doc/catdoc/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/catdoc/README
/usr/share/licenses/catdoc
/usr/share/licenses/catdoc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/catdoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/catppt.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/wordview.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xls2csv.1.gz

References

Summary

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