How To Install catdoc on Fedora 34
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.