How To Install texlive-appendix on CentOS 8

texlive-appendix is Extra control of appendices

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-appendix on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-appendix

The appendix package provides various ways of formatting the titles of appendices. Also (sub)appendices environments are provided that can be used, for example, for per chapter/section appendices. The word Appendix' or similar can be prepended to the appendix number for article class documents. The word Appendices’ or similar can be added to the table of contents before the appendices are listed. The word `Appendices’ or similar can be typeset as a \part-like heading (page) in the body. An appendices environment is provided which can be used instead of the \appendix command.

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

Install texlive-appendix 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 texlive-appendix using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-appendix

Install texlive-appendix 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 texlive-appendix using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-appendix

How To Uninstall texlive-appendix on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-appendix package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-appendix

texlive-appendix Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-appendix
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-appendix/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/appendix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/appendix/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/appendix/appendix.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/appendix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/appendix/appendix.sty

References

Summary

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