How To Install texinfo on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo on Rocky Linux 8. texinfo is Tools needed to create Texinfo format documentation files

Introduction

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

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 Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo.

Install texinfo 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 texinfo using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texinfo

Install texinfo 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 texinfo using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texinfo

How To Uninstall texinfo on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texinfo

texinfo Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/makeinfo
/usr/bin/pod2texi
/usr/bin/texi2any
/usr/share/doc/texinfo
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/README
/usr/share/doc/texinfo/TODO
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-1.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-2.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info-3.gz
/usr/share/info/texinfo.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo
/usr/share/licenses/texinfo/COPYING
/usr/share/locale/ca.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ca/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/cs/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/da/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/de_AT/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/el/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/eo/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/es/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/fr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/he/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/hu/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/id/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/it/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ja/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nb/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/nl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/no.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR.us-ascii/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/pt_BR/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/ro/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/ru/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/rw/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sl/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/sv/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/tr/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/uk/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo_document.mo
/usr/share/locale/vi/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_CN/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/locale/zh_TW/LC_MESSAGES/texinfo.mo
/usr/share/man/man1/makeinfo.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pod2texi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2any.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/texinfo.5.gz
/usr/share/texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/DebugTexinfo/DebugTree.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple
/usr/share/texinfo/Pod-Simple-Texinfo/Pod/Simple/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Common.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Converter.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/DocBook.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/HTML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXIN.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/IXINSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Info.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Line.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/NodeNameNormalization.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Paragraph.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/ParagraphNonXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/PlainTexinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Plaintext.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Texinfo.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoSXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TexinfoXML.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Text.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/TextContent.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/UnFilled.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Convert/Unicode.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Documentlanguages.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Encoding.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/MiscXS.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/ModulePath.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Parser.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Report.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Structuring.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/Transformations.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/Texinfo/XSLoader.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/htmlxref.cnf
/usr/share/texinfo/init
/usr/share/texinfo/init/book.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/chm.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/html32.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/latex2html.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/init/tex4ht.pm
/usr/share/texinfo/texindex.awk
/usr/share/texinfo/texinfo.dtd

References

texinfo website

Summary

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