How To Install texinfo on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on CentOS 7.
What is texinfo
Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. Install texinfo if you want a documentation system for producing both online and print documentation from the same source file and/or if you are going to write documentation for the GNU Project.
We can use yum or dnf to install texinfo on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo.
Install texinfo on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install texinfo using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texinfo
Install texinfo 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 texinfo using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texinfo
How To Uninstall texinfo on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texinfo package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texinfo
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
