How To Install txt2man on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install txt2man on Fedora 34.
What is txt2man
tx2man is a shell script using gnu awk, that should run on any Unix-like system. The syntax of the ASCII text is very straightforward and looks very much like the output of the man(1) program.
We can use yum or dnf to install txt2man on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install txt2man.
Install txt2man 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 txt2man using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install txt2man
Install txt2man 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 txt2man using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install txt2man
How To Uninstall txt2man on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the txt2man package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove txt2man
txt2man Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/bookman
/usr/bin/src2man
/usr/bin/txt2man
/usr/share/doc/txt2man
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/Changelog
/usr/share/doc/txt2man/README
/usr/share/man/man1/bookman.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/src2man.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/txt2man.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install txt2man on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.