How To Install pslib on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslib on CentOS 8.
What is pslib
pslib is a C-library to create PostScript files on the fly. It offers many drawing primitives, inclusion of png and eps images and a very sophisticated text rendering including hyphenation, kerning and ligatures. It can read external Type1 fonts and embed them into the output file. It supports pdfmarks which makes it in combination with ghostscript’s pdfwriter an alternative for libraries creating PDF.
We can use yum or dnf to install pslib on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pslib.
Install pslib 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 pslib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install pslib
Install pslib 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 pslib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install pslib
How To Uninstall pslib on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the pslib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove pslib
pslib Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/14
/usr/lib/.build-id/14/2665525ee4188457c3fed1f919d9bb99a5140c
/usr/lib64/libps.so.0
/usr/lib64/libps.so.0.4.5
/usr/share/doc/pslib
/usr/share/doc/pslib/AUTHORS
/usr/share/doc/pslib/COPYING
/usr/share/doc/pslib/ChangeLog
/usr/share/doc/pslib/README
/usr/share/locale/de/LC_MESSAGES/pslib.mo
/usr/share/pslib
/usr/share/pslib/draft.ps
/usr/share/pslib/exectime.ps
/usr/share/pslib/grid.ps
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslib on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.