How To Install html2ps on Fedora 34

html2ps is HTML to PostScript converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps on Fedora 34.

What is html2ps

An HTML to PostScript converter written in Perl. * Many possibilities to control the appearance. * Support for processing multiple documents. * A table of contents can be generated. * Configurable page headers/footers. * Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected.

We can use yum or dnf to install html2ps on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install html2ps.

Install html2ps 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 html2ps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install html2ps

Install html2ps 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 html2ps using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install html2ps

How To Uninstall html2ps on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the html2ps package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove html2ps

html2ps Package Contents on Fedora 34

/etc/html2psrc
/usr/bin/html2ps
/usr/share/doc/html2ps
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/README
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/html2ps.html
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/sample
/usr/share/licenses/html2ps
/usr/share/licenses/html2ps/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/html2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/html2psrc.5.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.