Information about the package, catdoc, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The catdoc package is designed for, A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text.
Package Name:
catdoc
Summary:
A program which converts Microsoft office files to plain text
Description:
catdoc is program which reads one or more Microsoft word files and outputs text, contained insinde them to standard output. Therefore it does same work for.doc files, as unix cat command for plain ASCII files. It is now accompanied by xls2csv - program which converts Excel spreadsheet into comma-separated value file, and catppt - utility to extract textual information from Powerpoint files
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0.95
Release:
1.el6
Size:
102 k
Repository:
epel
From Repository:
Licence:
GPL+
Control the catdoc package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install catdoc
This command will install catdoc on the server.
yum remove catdoc
This command will un-install catdoc on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove catdoc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove catdoc
This command will un-install catdoc on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove catdoc when using the -y flag.
yum update catdoc
This command will update catdoc to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove catdoc, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update catdoc
This command will update catdoc to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove catdoc when using the -y flag.
yum info catdoc
This command will show you core information about the catdoc package.
yum deplist catdoc
This command will show you the dependencies for catdoc. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update catdoc
This command will check if there is an update waiting on catdoc. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.