How To Install paper on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install paper on Rocky Linux 8.
What is paper
This package enables users to indicate their preferred paper size, provides the paper(1) utility to find the user’s preferred default paper size and give information about known sizes, and specifies system-wide and per-user paper size catalogs, which can be can also be used directly (see paperspecs(5)).
We can use yum or dnf to install paper on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paper.
Install paper on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install paper using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install paper
Install paper on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install paper using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install paper
How To Uninstall paper on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the paper package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove paper
paper Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/etc/paperspecs
/usr/bin/paper
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7
/usr/lib/.build-id/a7/d8bbae6198807798c67a0841d6d228a6e7cb85
/usr/libexec/localepaper
/usr/share/doc/paper
/usr/share/doc/paper/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/paper/README
/usr/share/licenses/paper
/usr/share/licenses/paper/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/paper.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/paperspecs.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install paper on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
