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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-thumbpdf.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-thumbpdf.noarch is Thumbnails for pdfTeX and dvips/ps2pdf

Introduction

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

What is texlive-thumbpdf.noarch

A Perl script that provides support for thumbnails in pdfTeX and dvips/ps2pdf. The script uses ghostscript to generate the thumbnails which get represented in a TeX readable file that is read by the package thumbpdf.sty to automatically include the thumbnails. This arrangement works with both plain TeX and LaTeX. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-thumbpdf.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-thumbpdf.noarch

texlive-thumbpdf.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-thumbpdf-svn26689.3.15
/usr/share/doc/texlive-thumbpdf-svn26689.3.15/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/thumbpdf.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.pl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.tex

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Summary

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