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odt2txt


Information about the package, odt2txt, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The odt2txt package is designed for, Converts an OpenDocument to plain text.


Package Name:

odt2txt

Summary:

Converts an OpenDocument to plain text

Description:

odt2txt is a command-line tool which extracts the text out of OpenDocument Texts produced by OpenOffice.org, StarOffice, KOffice and others. odt2txt is ... * small * supports multiple output encodings * adopts to your locale * able to substitute common characters which the output charset does not contain with ascii look-a-likes * written in C, has few dependencies * portable (runs on Linux, *BSD, Solaris, HP-UX, Windows, Cygwin)

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

0.4

Release:

3.el6

Size:

22 k

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2



Handy Yum Commands for odt2txt


Control the odt2txt package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install odt2txt

This command will install odt2txt on the server.

yum remove odt2txt

This command will un-install odt2txt on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove odt2txt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove odt2txt

This command will un-install odt2txt 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 odt2txt when using the -y flag.

yum update odt2txt

This command will update odt2txt to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove odt2txt, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update odt2txt

This command will update odt2txt 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 odt2txt when using the -y flag.

yum info odt2txt

This command will show you core information about the odt2txt package.

yum deplist odt2txt

This command will show you the dependencies for odt2txt. 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 odt2txt

This command will check if there is an update waiting on odt2txt. 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.