How To Install odt2xml 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 unoconv

sudo dnf makecache && sudo dnf -y install unoconv

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

What is odt2xml 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 odt2xml 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 odt2xml 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 odt2xml using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install unoconv

Install odt2xml on CentOS 8 using yum

Because odt2xml 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 odt2xml package on your server/computer by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install unoconv

How to upgrade (update) a single package odt2xml using yum?

To update all the packages available on the system:

yum update

If you want to update a specific package like odt2xml in this example you should use the following command:

yum update unoconv

To downgrade a package to an earlier version:

yum downgrade unoconv

How to Upgrade odt2xml 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 unoconv

How To remove odt2xml from CentOS 8

To uninstall only the odt2xml package you can execute the following command:

sudo dnf remove unoconv

Extra info and code examples

This package provides a commandline utility which can convert from any document format that LibreOffice can import to any document format it can export. It uses LibreOffice's UNO bindings for non-interactive conversion of documents. Supported document formats include Open Document format, MS Word, MS Office Open/MS OOXML, PDF, HTML, XHTML, RTF, DocBook, and more.

Conclusion

You now have a full guide on how to install odt2xml using dnf and yum package managers. Also, we showed how to update manually as a single package and different ways to uninstall the odt2xml from CentOS 8.

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