How To Install robodoc on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install robodoc on CentOS 7. robodoc is Extract documentation from source code

Introduction

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

What is robodoc

ROBODoc is a documentation tool (based on the AutoDocs program written a long time ago by Commodore). It extracts specially formatted comment headers from the source file and puts them in a separate file. ROBODoc thus allows you to include the program documentation in the source code and avoid having to maintain two separate documents. ROBODoc can format the documentation in HTML, ASCII, AmigaGuide, LaTeX, or RTF format. It is even possible to include parts of the source code with function names that point their the documentation. It also can create index tables for all your variables, classes, functions, etc. The best feature of ROBODoc is that it works with many languages Fortran, shell scripts, and COBOL, basically any language that supports comments/remarks.

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

Install robodoc on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install robodoc

Install robodoc 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 robodoc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install robodoc

How To Uninstall robodoc on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove robodoc

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Summary

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