How To Install plantuml on Fedora 34

plantuml is Program to generate UML diagram from a text description

Introduction

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

What is plantuml

PlantUML is a program allowing to draw UML diagrams, using a simple and human readable text description. It is extremely useful for code documenting, sketching project architecture during team conversations and so on. PlantUML supports the following diagram types - sequence diagram - use case diagram - class diagram - activity diagram - component diagram - state diagram

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

Install plantuml 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 plantuml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install plantuml

Install plantuml 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 plantuml using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install plantuml

How To Uninstall plantuml on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove plantuml

plantuml Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/plantuml
/usr/share/doc/plantuml
/usr/share/doc/plantuml/README
/usr/share/java/plantuml.jar
/usr/share/licenses/plantuml
/usr/share/licenses/plantuml/COPYING
/usr/share/maven-metadata/plantuml.xml

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Summary

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