How To Install html2ps on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps on CentOS 8.
What is html2ps
An HTML to PostScript converter written in Perl. * Many possibilities to control the appearance. * Support for processing multiple documents. * A table of contents can be generated. * Configurable page headers/footers. * Automatic hyphenation and text justification can be selected.
We can use yum or dnf to install html2ps on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install html2ps.
Install html2ps 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 html2ps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install html2ps
Install html2ps 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 html2ps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install html2ps
How To Uninstall html2ps on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the html2ps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove html2ps
html2ps Package Contents on CentOS 8
/etc/html2psrc
/usr/bin/html2ps
/usr/share/doc/html2ps
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/README
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/html2ps.html
/usr/share/doc/html2ps/sample
/usr/share/licenses/html2ps
/usr/share/licenses/html2ps/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/html2ps.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/html2psrc.5.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install html2ps on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.