How To Install blockdiag on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install blockdiag in Fedora 36. blockdiag is Generate block-diagram images from text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install blockdiag on Fedora 36.

What is `blockdiag`

blockdiag and its family generate diagram images from simply text file. Features - Generates beautiful diagram images from simple text format (similar to graphviz’s DOT format) - Layouts diagram elements automatically - Embeds to many documentations; Sphinx, Trac, Redmine and some wikis - Supports many types of diagrams - block diagram (with this package) - sequence diagram (with the seqdiag package) - activity diagram (with the actdiag package) - logical network diagram (with the nwdiag package) Enjoy documentation with blockdiag !

We can use yum or dnf to install blockdiag on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install blockdiag.

Install blockdiag on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blockdiag using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install blockdiag

Install blockdiag on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install blockdiag using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install blockdiag

How To Uninstall blockdiag on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove blockdiag

blockdiag Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/blockdiag
/usr/share/licenses/blockdiag
/usr/share/licenses/blockdiag/LICENSE
/usr/share/man/man1/blockdiag.1.gz

References

blockdiag website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install blockdiag on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).