How To Install devhelp on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install devhelp in Fedora 36. devhelp is API documentation browser

Introduction

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

What is devhelp

Devhelp is an API documentation browser for the GNOME desktop. It works natively with API documentation generated by gtk-doc.

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

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install devhelp

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install devhelp

How To Uninstall devhelp on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove devhelp

devhelp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/devhelp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/62
/usr/lib/.build-id/62/20d2c20faa2a610adf471a59e50e33c7a6a004
/usr/lib/gedit
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/devhelp.plugin
/usr/lib/gedit/plugins/devhelp.py
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Devhelp.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Devhelp.service
/usr/share/devhelp
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.css
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.js
/usr/share/devhelp/books
/usr/share/doc/devhelp
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.devhelp.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Devhelp.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.Devhelp-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/devhelp.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Devhelp.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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

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Introduction

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

What is devhelp

Devhelp is an API documentation browser for the GNOME desktop. It works natively with API documentation generated by gtk-doc.

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

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install devhelp

Install devhelp 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 devhelp using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install devhelp

How To Uninstall devhelp on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove devhelp

devhelp Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/devhelp
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/a437b5e3c5d02f1da97c12ba8b43862928408a
/usr/lib64/gedit
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.plugin
/usr/lib64/gedit/plugins/devhelp.py
/usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Devhelp.desktop
/usr/share/dbus-1/services/org.gnome.Devhelp.service
/usr/share/devhelp
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.css
/usr/share/devhelp/assistant/assistant.js
/usr/share/devhelp/books
/usr/share/doc/devhelp
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/devhelp/README.md
/usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas/org.gnome.devhelp.gschema.xml
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/scalable/apps/org.gnome.Devhelp.svg
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/symbolic/apps/org.gnome.Devhelp-symbolic.svg
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/CC-BY-SA-4.0.txt
/usr/share/licenses/devhelp/GPL-3.0-or-later.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/devhelp.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/org.gnome.Devhelp.appdata.xml

References

Summary

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