How To Install texlive-makeindex on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on Rocky Linux 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 Rocky Linux 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 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-makeindex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-makeindex
Install texlive-makeindex 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-makeindex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-makeindex
How To Uninstall texlive-makeindex on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-makeindex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-makeindex
texlive-makeindex Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/bin/makeindex
/usr/bin/mkindex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f
/usr/lib/.build-id/8f/a12a3888db48f613ae2dec2ab0b1ae302325b1
/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
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.
