How To Install xml2 on Fedora 34

xml2 is XML/Unix Processing Tools

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml2 on Fedora 34.

What is xml2

These tools are used to convert XML and HTML to and from a line-oriented format more amenable to processing by classic Unix pipeline processing tools, like grep, sed, awk, cut, shell scripts, and so forth.

We can use yum or dnf to install xml2 on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xml2.

Install xml2 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 xml2 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install xml2

Install xml2 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 xml2 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install xml2

How To Uninstall xml2 on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the xml2 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove xml2

xml2 Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/2csv
/usr/bin/2html
/usr/bin/2xml
/usr/bin/csv2
/usr/bin/html2
/usr/bin/xml2
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/31
/usr/lib/.build-id/31/b1399209dcb11ef4b83025802b6fbef43e777c
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d
/usr/lib/.build-id/3d/28175e4efbfb447a1ea4a927e0bc9369ca8ecf
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c
/usr/lib/.build-id/6c/925c4a12bfa71367304f64dade0127bf9b5603
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9
/usr/lib/.build-id/b9/9cd91d919c0a5b9b3978d30f39795e01dc709e
/usr/share/licenses/xml2
/usr/share/licenses/xml2/COPYING

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install xml2 on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.