How To Install doxy2man on Fedora 34

doxy2man is Create man pages from doxygen XML output

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxy2man on Fedora 34.

What is doxy2man

Doxy2man takes the XML generated by Doxygen as input and creates several man pages from that. It creates a summary man page for a header and for each function a detailed man page. The output is optimized for C projects. It supports the most common doxygen features, e.g. implicit and explicit see also tags, copyright, author information, brief and detailed descriptions, etc.

We can use yum or dnf to install doxy2man on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install doxy2man.

Install doxy2man 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 doxy2man using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install doxy2man

Install doxy2man 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 doxy2man using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install doxy2man

How To Uninstall doxy2man on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the doxy2man package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove doxy2man

doxy2man Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/doxy2man
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa
/usr/lib/.build-id/fa/6bfd381d7b0f1f561c5adc74c981b8d08a58e6
/usr/share/licenses/doxy2man
/usr/share/licenses/doxy2man/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man8/doxy2man.8.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install doxy2man on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.