How To Install octave-doctest on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-doctest in Fedora 36. octave-doctest is Documentation tests for Octave

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install octave-doctest on Fedora 36.

What is octave-doctest

The Octave-forge Doctest package finds specially-formatted blocks of example code within documentation files. It then executes the code and confirms the output is correct. This can be useful as part of a testing framework or simply to ensure that documentation stays up-to-date during software development.

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

Install octave-doctest 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 octave-doctest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install octave-doctest

Install octave-doctest 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 octave-doctest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install octave-doctest

How To Uninstall octave-doctest on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the octave-doctest package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove octave-doctest

octave-doctest Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/metainfo/octave-doctest.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/doc-cache
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/doctest.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo/COPYING
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo/DESCRIPTION
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo/INDEX
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/packinfo/on_uninstall.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_collect.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_colors.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_compare.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_datastore.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_default_directives.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_format_exception.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_join_conditions.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_run_docstring.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/doctest_run_tests.m
/usr/share/octave/packages/doctest-0.7.0/private/is_octave.m

References

Summary

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