How To Install help2man on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man on Fedora 34.
What is help2man
help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the –help and –version output of programs. Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.
We can use yum or dnf to install help2man on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install help2man.
Install help2man 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 help2man using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install help2man
Install help2man 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 help2man using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install help2man
How To Uninstall help2man on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the help2man package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove help2man
help2man Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/help2man
/usr/share/doc/help2man
/usr/share/doc/help2man/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/help2man/README
/usr/share/doc/help2man/THANKS
/usr/share/info/help2man-de.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-es.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-fr.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-pl.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-pt_BR.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-sr.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-sv.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-uk.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man-zh_CN.info.gz
/usr/share/info/help2man.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/help2man
/usr/share/licenses/help2man/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/sr/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/ta/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/help2man.mo
/usr/share/man/da/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/de/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/el/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/eo/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/es/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fi/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/fr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/hr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/hu/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/it/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ja/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/nb/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pl/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/pt_BR/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ru/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sr/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/sv/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/ta/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/uk/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/vi/man1/help2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/zh_CN/man1/help2man.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.
