How To Install scdoc on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install scdoc in Fedora 36. scdoc is Tool for generating roff manual pages

Introduction

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

What is `scdoc`

scdoc is a tool designed to make the process of writing man pages more friendly. It reads scdoc syntax from stdin and writes roff to stdout, suitable for reading with man.

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

Install scdoc 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 scdoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install scdoc

Install scdoc 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 scdoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install scdoc

How To Uninstall scdoc on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove scdoc

scdoc Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/scdoc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/12
/usr/lib/.build-id/12/147f6830258a029038e4568a1281e2275883a7
/usr/share/doc/scdoc
/usr/share/doc/scdoc/README.md
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc
/usr/share/licenses/scdoc/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/scdoc.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/scdoc.5.gz
/usr/share/pkgconfig/scdoc.pc

References

scdoc website

Summary

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