How To Install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8

texlive-makeindex is Process index output to produce typesettable code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-makeindex

A general purpose hierarchical index generator; it accepts one or more input files (often produced by a text formatter such as TeX or troff), sorts the entries, and produces an output file which can be formatted. The formats of the input and output files are specified in a style file; by default, input is assumed to be an .idx file, as generated by LaTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-makeindex.

Install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-makeindex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-makeindex

Install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-makeindex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-makeindex

How To Uninstall texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-makeindex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-makeindex

texlive-makeindex Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/makeindex
/usr/bin/mkindex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/fe/cfc96dfd3e117d3948bee46f3710ce3a5f96c8
/usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkindex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/makeindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/makeindex/doc-src.zip
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/makeindex/ind.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/makeindex/makeindex.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/babel
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/babel/bbglo.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/babel/bbind.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/din.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/icase.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/latex.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/math.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/mkind.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/puncts.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/base/tex.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/fixlatvian
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/fixlatvian/lv.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/index
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/index/bibref.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/latex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/latex/gglo.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/latex/gind.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/memoir
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/memoir/basic.gst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/plain
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/plain/plaintex.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/makeindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/makeindex/idxmac.tex

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.