How To Install mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpage.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. mpage.x86_64 is A tool for printing multiple pages of text on each printed page

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `mpage.x86_64`

The mpage utility takes plain text files or PostScript(TM) documents as input, reduces the size of the text, and prints the files on a PostScript printer with several pages on each sheet of paper. Mpage is very useful for viewing large printouts without using up lots of paper. Mpage supports many different layout options for the printed pages.

We can use yum to install mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install mpage.x86_64.

Install mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install mpage.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install mpage.x86_64

How To Uninstall mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the mpage.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove mpage.x86_64

mpage.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/mpage
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/CHANGES
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/COPYING.LESSER
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/Copyright
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/FAQ
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/README
/usr/share/doc/mpage-2.5.6/TODO
/usr/share/man/man1/mpage.1.gz
/usr/share/mpage
/usr/share/mpage/CP850.PC
/usr/share/mpage/ISO+STD+OTH
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-8859.1
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-8859.15
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-Latin.1
/usr/share/mpage/ISO-Latin.2

References

mpage.x86_64 website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install mpage.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.