How To Install stow-doc on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on Rocky Linux 8. stow-doc is Documentation for Stow

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install stow-doc on Rocky Linux 8.

What is `stow-doc`

This package contains the documentation for GNU Stow.

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

Install stow-doc 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 stow-doc using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install stow-doc

Install stow-doc 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 stow-doc using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install stow-doc

How To Uninstall stow-doc on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the stow-doc package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove stow-doc

stow-doc Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-single.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Bootstrapping.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Compile_002dtime-vs-Install_002dtime.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Conflicts.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Cygnus-Software.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Deferred-Operation.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Deleting-Packages.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/GNU-Emacs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/GNU-General-Public-License.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Index.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Installing-Packages.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Introduction.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Invoking-Stow.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Justification-For-Yet-Another-Set-Of-Ignore-Files.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Known-Bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Mixing-Operations.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Motivation-For-Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Multiple-Stow-Directories.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Other-FSF-Software.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Perl-and-Perl-5-Modules.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Reporting-Bugs.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Resource-Files.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Target-Maintenance.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Terminology.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Tree-unfolding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/Types-And-Syntax-Of-Ignore-Lists.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/index.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/tree-folding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual-split/tree-refolding.html
/usr/share/doc/stow-doc-2.3.1/manual.pdf

References

stow-doc website

Summary

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