How To Install halibut on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install halibut in Fedora 36. halibut is TeX-like software manual tool

Introduction

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

What is halibut

Halibut is yet another text formatting system, intended primarily for writing software documentation. It accepts a single source format and outputs a variety of formats, planned to include text, HTML, Texinfo, Windows Help, Windows HTMLHelp, PostScript and PDF. It has comprehensive indexing and cross-referencing support, and generates hyperlinks within output documents wherever possible.

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

Install halibut 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 halibut using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install halibut

Install halibut 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 halibut using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install halibut

How To Uninstall halibut on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove halibut

halibut Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/halibut
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/1485de5984ee98c502afb1ba0da2bfef18cc19
/usr/share/doc/halibut
/usr/share/doc/halibut/IndexPage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/LICENCE
/usr/share/doc/halibut/index.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/input.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/intro.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/licence.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/manpage.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/output.html
/usr/share/doc/halibut/running.html
/usr/share/info/halibut.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/halibut.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/halibut.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/halibut.info-4.gz
/usr/share/info/halibut.info.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/halibut.1.gz

References

Summary

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