How To Install texlive-makeindex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-makeindex.noarch is Process index output to produce typesettable code

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-makeindex.noarch

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. date

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

Install texlive-makeindex.noarch 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 texlive-makeindex.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-makeindex.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-makeindex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-makeindex.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-makeindex.noarch

texlive-makeindex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/man/man1/makeindex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mkindex.1.gz
/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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.