How To Install epydoc on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install epydoc
on CentOS 7.
What is epydoc
Epydoc is a tool for generating API documentation for Python modules, based on their docstrings. For an example of epydoc’s output, see the API documentation for epydoc itself (html, pdf). A lightweight markup language called epytext can be used to format docstrings, and to add information about specific fields, such as parameters and instance variables. Epydoc also understands docstrings written in ReStructuredText, Javadoc, and plaintext.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install epydoc
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install epydoc.
Install epydoc on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install epydoc
using yum
by running the following command:
Install epydoc 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.
After updating yum database, We can install epydoc
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall epydoc on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the epydoc
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install epydoc
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.