How To Install paps on Fedora 34

paps is Plain Text to PostScript converter

Introduction

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

What is paps

paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango.

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

Install paps 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 paps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paps

Install paps 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 paps using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install paps

How To Uninstall paps on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove paps

paps Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/paps
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/4644b7c53120c3a3c8cb8948dce4338b689918
/usr/share/doc/paps
/usr/share/doc/paps/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paps/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/paps/README
/usr/share/man/man1/paps.1.gz

References

Summary

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