How To Install texinfo on Fedora 34
texinfo is Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on Fedora 34.
What is texinfo
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
We can use yum or dnf to install texinfo on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo.
Install texinfo 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 texinfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texinfo
Install texinfo 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 texinfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texinfo
How To Uninstall texinfo on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the texinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texinfo
texinfo Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/makeinfo
/usr/bin/pod2texi
/usr/bin/texi2any
/usr/share/doc/texinfo
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/README
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/TODO
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/fi/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/no.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pod2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2any.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/texinfo.5.gz
/usr/share/texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo/DebugTree.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Common.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/DocBook.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXIN.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXINSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Line.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/NodeNameNormalization.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Paragraph.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/PlainTexinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Text.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TextContent.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/UnFilled.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Unicode.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Documentlanguages.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Encoding.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/MiscXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ModulePath.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ParserNonXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Transformations.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf
/usr/share/texinfo/init
/usr/share/texinfo/init/book.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/chm.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/html32.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/latex2html.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/tex4ht.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/texindex.awk
/usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.dtd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.