How To Install doclava on Fedora 34

One-liner Install Command

If you are only interested in the installation command, here is a quick answer for you:

sudo yum makecache && sudo yum -y install doclava-aosp

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install doclava-aosp

But if you are interested in the details with step-by-step instructions, the following information will be helpful.

What is doclava and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running Fedora 34. This guide was written specifically with a server running Fedora 34 in mind, although it should also work on older, supported versions of the operating system.

Also, make sure you are running a regular, non-root user with sudo privileges configured on your server. When you have an account available, log in as your non-root user to begin.

There are several ways to install doclava on Fedora 34. You can use (links are clickable):

In the following sections, we will describe each method in detail. You can choose one of them or refer to the recommended one.

Install doclava on Fedora 34 using dnf

First, update dnf packages database with dnf by running the next command:

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating database, You can install doclava using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install doclava-aosp

Install doclava on Fedora 34 using yum

Because doclava is available in Fedora 34’s default repositories, it is possible to install it from these repositories using the yum packaging system.

To begin, update local packages database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

Now can install doclava package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install doclava-aosp

How to upgrade (update) a single package doclava using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like doclava in this example you should use the following command:

yum update doclava-aosp

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade doclava-aosp

How to Upgrade doclava on Fedora 34 with dnf?

When you run the dnf update, all system packages with available updates are updated. However, if you want to upgrade a single package, then you would have to pass the package name as the argument to the dnf update command.

dnf update doclava-aosp

How To remove doclava from Fedora 34

To uninstall only the doclava package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove doclava-aosp

Extra info and code examples

Key differences between Doclava and the standard doclet include: * Refreshed look and feel, including search capabilities * Embeds versioning information in the documentation * Uses a templating engine for user customizations * Throw build errors for things that can easily be caught, like @param tags that don't match the parameter names. * Ability to include snippets of code from real source code * Federate documentation between multiple sites * Ability to embed javadocs in a larger web page. This package is a fork of Doclava by The Android Open Source Project with special features for generating the source files of the Android platform framework API stubs "android.jar".

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install doclava using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the doclava from Fedora 34.

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