How To Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-lua-alt-getopt is Process application arguments the same way as getopt_long

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on Rocky Linux 8.

What is texlive-lua-alt-getopt

lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licensed module for Lua, for processing application arguments in the same way as BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do. This module is made available for lua script writers to have consistent command line parsing routines.

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

Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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 texlive-lua-alt-getopt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt

Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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 texlive-lua-alt-getopt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt

How To Uninstall texlive-lua-alt-getopt on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the texlive-lua-alt-getopt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-lua-alt-getopt

texlive-lua-alt-getopt Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/NEWS
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/alt_getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests/test.out
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests/test.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/lua-alt-getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/lua-alt-getopt/alt_getopt.lua

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.