How To Install psutils on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install psutils on Rocky Linux 8. psutils is PostScript utilities

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install psutils on Rocky Linux 8.

What is psutils

Utilities for manipulating PostScript documents. Page selection and rearrangement are supported, including arrangement into signatures for booklet printing, and page merging for n-up printing.

We can use yum or dnf to install psutils on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install psutils.

Install psutils 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 psutils using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install psutils

Install psutils 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 psutils using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install psutils

How To Uninstall psutils on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the psutils package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove psutils

psutils Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/epsffit
/usr/bin/extractres
/usr/bin/includeres
/usr/bin/psbook
/usr/bin/psjoin
/usr/bin/psnup
/usr/bin/psresize
/usr/bin/psselect
/usr/bin/pstops
/usr/share/doc/psutils
/usr/share/doc/psutils/README
/usr/share/licenses/psutils
/usr/share/licenses/psutils/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/epsffit.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/extractres.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/includeres.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psbook.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psjoin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psnup.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psresize.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psselect.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pstops.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/psutils.1.gz
/usr/share/psutils
/usr/share/psutils/PSUtils.pm

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install psutils on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.