How To Install texlive-crop on CentOS 8

texlive-crop is Support for cropmarks

Introduction

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

What is texlive-crop

A package providing corner marks for camera alignment as well as for trimming paper stacks, and additional page information on every page if required. Most macros are easily adaptable to personal preferences. An option is provided for selectively suppressing graphics or text, which may be useful for printing just colour graphics on a colour laser printer and the rest on a cheap mono laser printer. A page info line contains the time and a new cropmarks index and is printed at the top of the page. A configuration command is provided for the info line font. Options for better collaboration with dvips, pdftex and vtex are provided.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-crop

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-crop

How To Uninstall texlive-crop on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-crop

texlive-crop Package Contents on CentOS 8

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

References

Summary

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