How To Install rst2txt on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install rst2txt in Fedora 36. rst2txt is Convert reStructuredText to plain text

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rst2txt on Fedora 36.

What is rst2txt

reStructuredText is pretty-damn consumable in its raw form, but extensive use of directives and roles can hamper things or leave the document incomplete in its raw form. rst2txt allows you to work around this by evaluating the reStructuredText source and stripping it of most of its formatting. The end result is a document that’s more readable and has elements that don’t make sense in a plain text document, such as images, stripped.

We can use yum or dnf to install rst2txt on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rst2txt.

Install rst2txt 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 rst2txt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rst2txt

Install rst2txt 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 rst2txt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rst2txt

How To Uninstall rst2txt on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the rst2txt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rst2txt

rst2txt Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/rst2txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/PKG-INFO
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/SOURCES.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/dependency_links.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/entry_points.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/not-zip-safe
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/requires.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt-1.1.0-py3.10.egg-info/top_level.txt
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__init__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__main__.py
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/__init__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/__main__.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/writer.cpython-310.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/__pycache__/writer.cpython-310.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.10/site-packages/rst2txt/writer.py
/usr/share/doc/rst2txt
/usr/share/doc/rst2txt/README.rst
/usr/share/licenses/rst2txt
/usr/share/licenses/rst2txt/LICENSE

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install rst2txt on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).