How To Install rarian on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install rarian on Rocky Linux 8. rarian is Documentation meta-data library

Introduction

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

What is `rarian`

Rarian is a documentation meta-data library that allows access to documents, man pages and info pages. It was designed as a replacement for scrollkeeper.

We can use yum or dnf to install rarian on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install rarian.

Install rarian 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 rarian using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rarian

Install rarian 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 rarian using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rarian

How To Uninstall rarian on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove rarian

rarian Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/22f3330586aa087f411d298b80b8604177c7a0
/usr/lib/.build-id/94
/usr/lib/.build-id/94/6ee535c563bb5bcacfeb4fdb0f2f56a436051f
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml
/usr/bin/rarian-example
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/79
/usr/lib/.build-id/79/391ef8fab5a52221a3e891f9d71f59582056b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5
/usr/lib/.build-id/b5/2f378a0d1f54dee82db51119d2596a102ab2d4
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0
/usr/lib64/librarian.so.0.0.0
/usr/share/doc/rarian
/usr/share/doc/rarian/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.LIB
/usr/share/doc/rarian/COPYING.UTILS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/rarian/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/rarian/README
/usr/share/help
/usr/share/help/rarian.document
/usr/share/librarian
/usr/share/librarian/Templates
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C
/usr/share/librarian/Templates/C/scrollkeeper_cl.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual
/usr/share/librarian/manual/help-spec-0.2.xml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/index.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-lib.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-mdf.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/manual/rar-skcompat.xhtml
/usr/share/librarian/rarian-sk-cl.xml

References

rarian website

Summary

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