How To Install tagsoup on Fedora 34

tagsoup is A SAX-compliant HTML parser written in Java

Introduction

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

What is tagsoup

TagSoup is a SAX-compliant parser written in Java that, instead of parsing well-formed or valid XML, parses HTML as it is found in the wild and brutish, though quite often far from short. TagSoup is designed for people who have to process this stuff using some semblance of a rational application design. By providing a SAX interface, it allows standard XML tools to be applied to even the worst HTML.

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

Install tagsoup 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 tagsoup using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install tagsoup

Install tagsoup 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 tagsoup using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install tagsoup

How To Uninstall tagsoup on Fedora 34

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

sudo dnf remove tagsoup

tagsoup Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/share/doc/tagsoup
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/README
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/TODO
/usr/share/doc/tagsoup/tagsoup.txt
/usr/share/java/tagsoup.jar
/usr/share/licenses/tagsoup
/usr/share/licenses/tagsoup/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/tagsoup.1.gz
/usr/share/maven-metadata/tagsoup.xml
/usr/share/maven-poms/tagsoup.pom

References

Summary

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