How To Install help2man on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man
on CentOS 7.
What is help2man
help2man is a script to create simple man pages from the –help and –version output of programs. Since most GNU documentation is now in info format, this provides a way to generate a placeholder man page pointing to that resource while still providing some useful information.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install help2man
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install help2man.
Install help2man on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install help2man
using yum
by running the following command:
Install help2man 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 help2man
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall help2man on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the help2man
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install help2man
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.