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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pstricks.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-pstricks.noarch is PostScript macros for TeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pstricks.noarch

An extensive collection of macros for generating PostScript that is usable with most TeX macro formats, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and AMS-LaTeX. Included are macros for colour, graphics, pie charts, rotation, trees and overlays. It has many special features, including a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with colour support. There are macros for colouring or shading the cells of tables. The package pstricks-add contains bug-fixes and additions for pstricks (among other things). PSTricks uses PostScript \special commands, which are not supported by PDF(La)TeX. This limitation may be overcome by using either the pst-pdf or the pdftricks package, to generate a PDF inclusion from a PSTricks diagram. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pstricks.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-pstricks.noarch

texlive-pstricks.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-pstricks-svn29678.2.39
/usr/share/doc/texlive-pstricks-svn29678.2.39/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-algparser.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pst-dots97.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks/pstricks97.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/distiller.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/dvips.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/dvipsone.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/gastex.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/textures.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/vtex.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/config/xdvipdfmx.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pst-fp.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pst-key.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstPlain.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.con
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks/pstricks97.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pst-all.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pst-doc.cls
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pst-key.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pstcol.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks/pstricks.sty

References

Summary

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