How To Install texlive-xstring on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-xstring is String manipulation for (La)TeX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring on Rocky Linux 8.

What is texlive-xstring

The package provides macros for manipulating strings – testing a string’s contents, extracting substrings, substitution of substrings and providing numbers such as string length, position of, or number of recurrences of, a substring. The package works equally in Plain TeX and LaTeX (though e-TeX is always required). The strings to be processed may contain (expandable) macros.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xstring

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xstring

How To Uninstall texlive-xstring on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xstring

texlive-xstring Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xstring
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xstring/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_en.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_en.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_fr.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_fr.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.tex

References

Summary

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