How To Install BibTool on CentOS 8

BibTool is A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on CentOS 8.

What is BibTool

BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities — and intentions — of BibTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install BibTool on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BibTool.

Install BibTool on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install BibTool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install BibTool

Install BibTool on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install BibTool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install BibTool

How To Uninstall BibTool on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the BibTool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove BibTool

BibTool Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/bibtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/eeb9d351c84cb6e82092f7be761a6060e11768
/usr/share/BibTool
/usr/share/BibTool/biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/braces.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/check_y.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/default.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/field.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/improve.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/iso2tex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_bibtex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/month.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/opt.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/sort_fld.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/tex_def.rsc
/usr/share/doc/BibTool
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Changes.tex
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl/bibtool.pl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/README.md
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl/bibtool.tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/bibtool.pdf
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/ref_card.pdf
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bibtool.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.