How To Install texlive-tools on CentOS 8

texlive-tools is The LaTeX standard tools bundle

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-tools`

A collection of (variously) simple tools provided as part of the LaTeX required tools distribution, comprising array, bm, calc, dcolumn, delarray, enumerate, fileerr, fontsmpl, ftnright, hhline, indentfirst, layout, longtable, multicol, rawfonts, showkeys, somedefs, tabularx, theorem, trace, varioref, verbatim, xr, and xspace.

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

Install texlive-tools 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-tools using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-tools

Install texlive-tools 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-tools using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-tools

How To Uninstall texlive-tools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-tools

texlive-tools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tools
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tools/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/afterpage.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/array.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/bm.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/calc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/changes.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/dcolumn.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/delarray.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/enumerate.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/fileerr.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/fontsmpl.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/ftnright.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/hhline.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/indentfirst.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/layout.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/longtable.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/manifest.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/multicol.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/rawfonts.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/shellesc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/showkeys.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/somedefs.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/tabularx.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/theorem.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/tools-overview.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/tools-overview.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/trace.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/varioref.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/verbatim.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/xr.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tools/xspace.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/afterpage.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/bm.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/calc.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/dcolumn.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/delarray.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/e.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/enumerate.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/fontsmpl.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/fontsmpl.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/ftnright.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/h.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/hhline.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/indentfirst.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/layout.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/longtable.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/multicol.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/q.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/r.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/rawfonts.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/s.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/shellesc.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/showkeys.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/somedefs.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/tabularx.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thc.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thcb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/theorem.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thm.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thmb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/thp.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/trace.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/varioref.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/verbatim.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/verbtest.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/x.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/xr.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/xspace.sty

References

texlive-tools website

Summary

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