How To Install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8. asciidoc is Text based document generation

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8.

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install asciidoc.

Install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install asciidoc

Install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install asciidoc

How To Uninstall asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove asciidoc

asciidoc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/etc/asciidoc
/etc/asciidoc/asciidoc.conf
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex
/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/etc/asciidoc/docbook45.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz2png.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source/source-highlight-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/help.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html4.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html5.conf
/etc/asciidoc/images
/etc/asciidoc/javascripts
/etc/asciidoc/lang-cs.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-de.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-el.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-en.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-es.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fi.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fr.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-hu.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-id.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-it.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ja.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-nl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pt-BR.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ro.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ru.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-sv.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-uk.conf
/etc/asciidoc/latex.conf
/etc/asciidoc/slidy.conf
/etc/asciidoc/stylesheets
/etc/asciidoc/text.conf
/etc/asciidoc/themes
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask/flask.css
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky/volnitsky.css
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11-quirks.conf
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11.conf
/usr/bin/a2x
/usr/bin/a2x.py
/usr/bin/asciidoc
/usr/bin/asciidoc.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/asciidocapi.py
/usr/share/asciidoc
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/chunked.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/common.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/epub.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/text.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/images
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/README
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/1.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/10.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/11.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/12.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/13.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/14.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/15.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/2.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/3.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/4.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/5.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/6.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/7.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/8.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/9.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/caution.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/example.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/home.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/important.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/next.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/note.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/prev.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/tip.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/up.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/warning.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/ASCIIMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/LaTeXMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/asciidoc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/slidy.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/toc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/asciidoc.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/docbook-xsl.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/pygments.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/slidy.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/toc2.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/xhtml11-quirks.css
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/README.asciidoc
/usr/share/man/man1/a2x.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/asciidoc.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/asciidoc.vim

References

asciidoc website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.