How To Install cmark on Fedora 34

cmark is CommonMark parsing and rendering

Introduction

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

What is `cmark`

cmark is the C reference implementation of CommonMark, a rationalized version of Markdown syntax with a spec. It provides a shared library (libcmark) with functions for parsing CommonMark documents to an abstract syntax tree (AST), manipulating the AST, and rendering the document to HTML, groff man, LaTeX, CommonMark, or an XML representation of the AST. It also provides a command-line program (cmark) for parsing and rendering CommonMark documents.

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

Install cmark 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 cmark using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install cmark

Install cmark 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 cmark using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install cmark

How To Uninstall cmark on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove cmark

cmark Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/cmark
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6
/usr/lib/.build-id/c6/6faa3832bf928928d96ffed2977926d3d2c5d5
/usr/share/licenses/cmark
/usr/share/licenses/cmark/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/cmark.1.gz

References

cmark website

Summary

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