How To Install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf on CentOS 8

ghostscript-tools-dvipdf is Ghostscript’s ‘dvipdf’ utility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf on CentOS 8.

What is ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

This package provides the utility ‘dvipdf’ for converting of TeX DVI files into PDF files using Ghostscript and dvips.

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

Install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 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 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

Install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf 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 ghostscript-tools-dvipdf using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

How To Uninstall ghostscript-tools-dvipdf on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the ghostscript-tools-dvipdf package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove ghostscript-tools-dvipdf

ghostscript-tools-dvipdf Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/dvipdf
/usr/share/man/de/man1/dvipdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvipdf.1.gz

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install ghostscript-tools-dvipdf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.