How To Install restview on Fedora 34

restview is ReStructuredText viewer

Introduction

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

What is restview

A viewer for ReStructuredText documents that renders them on the fly. Pass the name of a ReStructuredText document to restview, and it will launch a web server on localhost reload the page, restview will reload the document from disk and render it.

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

Install restview 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 restview using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install restview

Install restview 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 restview using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install restview

How To Uninstall restview on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove restview

restview Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/restview

References

Summary

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