asciidoc is Text based document generation
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on CentOS 8.
What is asciidoc
AsciiDoc is a text document format for writing short documents, articles, books and UNIX man pages. AsciiDoc files can be translated to HTML and DocBook markups using the asciidoc(1) command.
We can use yum or dnf to install asciidoc on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install asciidoc.
Install asciidoc on CentOS 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install asciidoc using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install asciidoc
Install asciidoc on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
The output should look something like this:
CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream 43 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS 65 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease 43 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras 23 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack 40 kB/s | 3.0 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability 36 kB/s | 3.9 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus 24 kB/s | 1.5 kB 00:00
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools 50 kB/s | 4.3 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64 13 kB/s | 9.2 kB 00:00
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64 24 kB/s | 8.5 kB 00:00
Metadata cache created.
After updating yum database, We can install asciidoc using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install asciidoc
How To Uninstall asciidoc on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the asciidoc package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove asciidoc
asciidoc Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/asciidoc
/etc/asciidoc/asciidoc.conf
/etc/asciidoc/dblatex
/etc/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/etc/asciidoc/docbook45.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/code/code-filter.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/filters/graphviz/graphviz2png.py
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source
/etc/asciidoc/filters/source/source-highlight-filter.conf
/etc/asciidoc/help.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html4.conf
/etc/asciidoc/html5.conf
/etc/asciidoc/images
/etc/asciidoc/javascripts
/etc/asciidoc/lang-cs.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-de.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-el.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-en.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-es.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fi.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-fr.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-hu.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-id.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-it.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ja.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-nl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pl.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-pt-BR.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ro.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-ru.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-sv.conf
/etc/asciidoc/lang-uk.conf
/etc/asciidoc/latex.conf
/etc/asciidoc/slidy.conf
/etc/asciidoc/stylesheets
/etc/asciidoc/text.conf
/etc/asciidoc/themes
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask
/etc/asciidoc/themes/flask/flask.css
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky
/etc/asciidoc/themes/volnitsky/volnitsky.css
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11-quirks.conf
/etc/asciidoc/xhtml11.conf
/usr/bin/a2x
/usr/bin/a2x.py
/usr/bin/asciidoc
/usr/bin/asciidoc.py
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-36.opt-1.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/__pycache__/asciidocapi.cpython-36.pyc
/usr/lib/python3.6/site-packages/asciidocapi.py
/usr/share/asciidoc
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.sty
/usr/share/asciidoc/dblatex/asciidoc-dblatex.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/chunked.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/common.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/epub.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/fo.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/htmlhelp.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/manpage.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/text.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/docbook-xsl/xhtml.xsl
/usr/share/asciidoc/images
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/README
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/1.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/10.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/11.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/12.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/13.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/14.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/15.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/2.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/3.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/4.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/5.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/6.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/7.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/8.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/callouts/9.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/caution.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/example.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/home.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/important.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/next.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/note.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/prev.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/tip.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/up.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/images/icons/warning.png
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/ASCIIMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/LaTeXMathML.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/asciidoc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/slidy.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/javascripts/toc.js
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/asciidoc.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/docbook-xsl.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/pygments.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/slidy.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/toc2.css
/usr/share/asciidoc/stylesheets/xhtml11-quirks.css
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/COPYRIGHT
/usr/share/doc/asciidoc/README.asciidoc
/usr/share/man/man1/a2x.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/asciidoc.1.gz
/usr/share/vim/vimfiles/syntax/asciidoc.vim
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install asciidoc on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
