How To Install pandoc on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install pandoc in Fedora 36. pandoc is Conversion between markup formats

Introduction

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

What is pandoc

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, JATS, MediaWiki markup, DokuWiki markup, TWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, Jira markup, Creole 1.0, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-Mode, Emacs Muse, txt2tags, ipynb (Jupyter notebooks), Vimwiki, Word Docx, ODT, EPUB, FictionBook2, roff man, Textile, BibTeX, BibLaTeX, CSL JSON, , and CSV, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX, ConTeXt, DocBook, JATS, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, PowerPoint pptx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, XWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, Jira, roff man, roff ms, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), ipynb, FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, Muse, CSL JSON, LaTeX beamer slides, and several kinds of HTML/JavaScript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js). In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer. For pdf output please also install pandoc-pdf or weasyprint.

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

Install pandoc 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 pandoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install pandoc

Install pandoc 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 pandoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pandoc

How To Uninstall pandoc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove pandoc

pandoc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/hsmarkdown
/usr/bin/pandoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/3dd1bdf9bb7c96d389a9d976f7efeca5c2ecd7
/usr/share/bash-completion/completions/pandoc
/usr/share/man/man1/pandoc.1.gz

References

Summary

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