How To Install hsmarkdown on CentOS 8

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 pandoc

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install pandoc

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

What is hsmarkdown and How to Install It?

First things first, you will need access to a server or computer running CentOS 8. This guide was written specifically with a server running CentOS 8 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 hsmarkdown on CentOS 8. 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 hsmarkdown on CentOS 8 using dnf

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

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install pandoc

Install hsmarkdown on CentOS 8 using yum

Because hsmarkdown is available in CentOS 8’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 hsmarkdown package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install pandoc

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

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

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

yum update pandoc

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade pandoc

How to Upgrade hsmarkdown on CentOS 8 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 pandoc

How To remove hsmarkdown from CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove pandoc

Extra info and code examples

Pandoc is a Haskell library for converting from one markup format to another, and a command-line tool that uses this library. It can read several dialects of Markdown and (subsets of) HTML, reStructuredText, LaTeX, DocBook, JATS, MediaWiki markup, TWiki markup, TikiWiki markup, Creole 1.0, Haddock markup, OPML, Emacs Org-mode, Emacs Muse, txt2tags, Vimwiki, Word Docx, ODT, EPUB, FictionBook2, and Textile, and it can write Markdown, reStructuredText, XHTML, HTML 5, LaTeX (including rendering as plain PDF or beamer slide shows), ConTeXt, DocBook, JATS, OPML, TEI, OpenDocument, ODT, Word docx, RTF, MediaWiki, DokuWiki, ZimWiki, Textile, groff man, groff ms, GNU Texinfo, plain text, Emacs Org-Mode, AsciiDoc, Haddock markup, EPUB (v2 and v3), FictionBook2, InDesign ICML, Muse, LaTeX beamer slides, PowerPoint, and several kinds of HTML/javaScript slide shows (S5, Slidy, Slideous, DZSlides, reveal.js). In contrast to most existing tools for converting Markdown to HTML, pandoc has a modular design: it consists of a set of readers, which parse text in a given format and produce a native representation of the document, and a set of writers, which convert this native representation into a target format. Thus, adding an input or output format requires only adding a reader or writer. This package contains the pandoc tool. Some uses of Pandoc require additional packages: * SVG content in PDF output requires librsvg2-bin. * YAML metadata in TeX-related output requires texlive-latex-extra. * *.hs filters not set executable requires ghc. * *.js filters not set executable requires nodejs. * *.php filters not set executable requires php. * *.pl filters not set executable requires perl. * *.py filters not set executable requires python. * *.rb filters not set executable requires ruby. * *.r filters not set executable requires r-base-core. * LaTeX output, and PDF output via PDFLaTeX, require texlive-latex-recommended. * XeLaTeX output, and PDF output via XeLaTeX, require texlive-xetex. * LuaTeX output, and PDF output via LuaTeX, require texlive-luatex. * ConTeXt output, and PDF output via ConTeXt, require context. * PDF output via wkhtmltopdf requires wkhtmltopdf. * Groff man and groff ms output, and PDF output via groff ms, require groff. * MathJax-rendered equations require libjs-mathjax. * KaTeX-rendered equations require node-katex.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install hsmarkdown using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the hsmarkdown from CentOS 8.

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