How To Install scdoc on Fedora 34

scdoc is Tool for generating roff manual pages

Introduction

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

What is scdoc

scdoc is a tool designed to make the process of writing man pages more friendly. It reads scdoc syntax from stdin and writes roff to stdout, suitable for reading with man.

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

Install scdoc 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 scdoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scdoc

Install scdoc 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 scdoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scdoc

How To Uninstall scdoc on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove scdoc

scdoc Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/scdoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b
/usr/lib/.build-id/8b/07f9eaa1ad25dcf5438ffd6400d127f9735bb4
/usr/share/doc/scdoc
/usr/share/doc/scdoc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/scdoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/scdoc.5.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig/scdoc.pc

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Summary

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