How To Install doclifter on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install doclifter on Fedora 36.
What is doclifter
The doclifter program translates documents written in troff macros to DocBook. Lifting documents from presentation level to semantic level is hard, and a really good job requires human polishing. This tool aims to do everything that can be mechanized, and to preserve any troff-level information that might have structural implications in XML comments. This tool does the hard parts. TBL tables are translated into DocBook table markup, PIC into SVG, and EQN into MathML (relying on pic2svg and GNU eqn for the last two).
We can use yum or dnf to install doclifter on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install doclifter.
Install doclifter 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 doclifter using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install doclifter
Install doclifter 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 doclifter using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install doclifter
How To Uninstall doclifter on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the doclifter package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove doclifter
doclifter Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/doclifter
/usr/bin/manlifter
/usr/share/doc/doclifter
/usr/share/doc/doclifter/README
/usr/share/doc/doclifter/TODO
/usr/share/licenses/doclifter
/usr/share/licenses/doclifter/COPYING
/usr/share/man/de/man1/manlifter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/doclifter.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/manlifter.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install doclifter on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).