How To Install rubygem-asciidoctor on CentOS 7

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubygem-asciidoctor on CentOS 7.

What is rubygem-asciidoctor

A fast, open source text processor and publishing toolchain, written in Ruby, for transforming AsciiDoc markup into HTML 5, DocBook 4.5, DocBook 5.0 and custom output formats. The transformation from AsciiDoc to custom output formats is performed by running the nodes in the parsed document tree through a collection of templates written in a template language supported by Tilt.

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

Install rubygem-asciidoctor on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install rubygem-asciidoctor using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install rubygem-asciidoctor

Install rubygem-asciidoctor 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 rubygem-asciidoctor using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rubygem-asciidoctor

How To Uninstall rubygem-asciidoctor on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the rubygem-asciidoctor package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove rubygem-asciidoctor

References

• rubygem-asciidoctor website

Summary

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