How To Install docbook2X on Fedora 34

docbook2X is Convert docbook into man and Texinfo

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on Fedora 34.

What is docbook2X

docbook2X converts DocBook documents into man pages and Texinfo documents.

We can use yum or dnf to install docbook2X on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install docbook2X.

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install docbook2X

Install docbook2X 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 docbook2X using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install docbook2X

How To Uninstall docbook2X on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the docbook2X package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove docbook2X

docbook2X Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2man
/usr/bin/db2x_docbook2texi
/usr/bin/db2x_manxml
/usr/bin/db2x_texixml
/usr/bin/db2x_xsltproc
/usr/bin/sgml2xml-isoent
/usr/bin/utf8trans
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/32
/usr/lib/.build-id/32/2dfa9d25e006c6b6e023bd51be25392f3317ce
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/README
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/changes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/charsets.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/cindex.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_manxml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_texixml.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/db2x_xsltproc.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/dependencies.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/design-notes.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2X.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2man.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/docbook2texi.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/faq.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/install.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/manpages.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/performance.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/sgml2xml-isoent.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/testing.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/texinfo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/todo.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/utf8trans.html
/usr/share/doc/docbook2X/html/xsltproc.html
/usr/share/docbook2X
/usr/share/docbook2X/VERSION
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/roff.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi-small.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap
/usr/share/docbook2X/charmaps/texi.charmap.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Man-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/Texi-XML
/usr/share/docbook2X/dtd/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/charmap.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_manxml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/db2x_texixml.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-html-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/man-table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/backend/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/catalog.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/check-idref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/cmdsynopsis.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/gentext.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/l10n.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/labels.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/messages.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/person.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/string.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/af.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/bg.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ca.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/cs.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/da.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/de.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/el.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/en.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/es.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/et.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/eu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/fr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/he.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/hu.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/id.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/it.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ja.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ko.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/l10n-set.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/lt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/nn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/no.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt-br.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/pt.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ro.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/ru.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sl.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/sv.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/th.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/tr.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/uk.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/vi.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/xh.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-cn.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/text/zh-tw.xml
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/titles.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/ucase.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/version.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/common/whitespace.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/man/xref.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/admon.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/autotoc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/beginpage.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/biblio.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/block.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/callout.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/caption.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/chunk.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/component.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/division.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/docbook.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/footnote.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/force-inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/formal.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/glossary.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/graphics.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/index.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/info.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/inline.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/jrefentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/keywords.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/lists.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/math.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/menudescrip.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/param.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/pi.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/qandaset.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/refentry.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sectioning.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/sections.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/synop.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/table.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texifile.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode-base.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/texinode.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/toc.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/verbatim.xsl
/usr/share/docbook2X/xslt/texi/xref.xsl
/usr/share/info/docbook2X.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2man-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/info/docbook2texi-xslt.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_docbook2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_manxml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_texixml.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/db2x_xsltproc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/sgml2xml-isoent.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/utf8trans.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install docbook2X on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.