How To Install mandoc on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on Fedora 34.
What is mandoc
mandoc is a suite of tools compiling mdoc, the roff macro language of choice for BSD manual pages, and man, the predominant historical language for UNIX manuals. It is small, ISO C, ISC-licensed, and quite fast. The main component of the toolset is the mandoc utility program, based on the libmandoc validating compiler, to format output for UTF-8 and ASCII UNIX terminals, HTML 5, PostScript, and PDF.
We can use yum or dnf to install mandoc on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mandoc.
Install mandoc 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 mandoc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install mandoc
Install mandoc 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 mandoc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install mandoc
How To Uninstall mandoc on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the mandoc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove mandoc
mandoc Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/apropos
/usr/bin/apropos.mandoc
/usr/bin/demandoc
/usr/bin/man
/usr/bin/man.mandoc
/usr/bin/mandoc
/usr/bin/soelim
/usr/bin/soelim.mandoc
/usr/bin/whatis
/usr/bin/whatis.mandoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/22
/usr/lib/.build-id/22/46c51def32a145f9c4e29c03e8a9d940c33e38
/usr/lib/.build-id/35
/usr/lib/.build-id/35/0885a05e8c4d28935adfc4102a0562e444ae1e
/usr/lib/.build-id/89
/usr/lib/.build-id/89/1c48942a2657f0732bb4155c640ca9cc1d2425
/usr/sbin/makewhatis
/usr/sbin/makewhatis.mandoc
/usr/share/licenses/mandoc
/usr/share/licenses/mandoc/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/apropos.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/demandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/man.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/soelim.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/soelim.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whatis.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/whatis.mandoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mandoc.conf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/mandoc.db.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/eqn.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/eqn.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/man.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mandoc_char.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/mdoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/roff.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/roff.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tbl.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man7/tbl.mandoc.7.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makewhatis.8.gz
/usr/share/man/man8/makewhatis.mandoc.8.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install mandoc on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.