How To Install asciidoc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on CentOS 7. asciidoc is Text based document generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on CentOS 7.

What is asciidoc

AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.

We can use yum or dnf to install asciidoc on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install asciidoc.

Install asciidoc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install asciidoc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install asciidoc

Install asciidoc on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install asciidoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install asciidoc

How To Uninstall asciidoc on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove asciidoc

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.