How To Install texlive-datetime on CentOS 8
texlive-datetime is Change format of oday with commands for current time
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-datetime on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-datetime
Provides various different formats for the text created by the command \today, and also provides commands for displaying the current time (or any given time), in 12-hour, 24-hour or text format. The package overrides babel’s date format, having its own library of date formats in different languages. The package requires the fmtcount package.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-datetime on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-datetime.
Install texlive-datetime 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-datetime using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-datetime
Install texlive-datetime 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-datetime using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-datetime
How To Uninstall texlive-datetime on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-datetime package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-datetime
texlive-datetime Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-datetime
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-datetime/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/CHANGES
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/datetime-manual.css
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/datetime-manual.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/datetime-manual.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/datetime.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/datetime.perl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/dt-lang.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/dt-sampl.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/samples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/samples/dt-lang.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/samples/dt-lang.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/samples/dt-sampl.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/datetime/samples/dt-sampl.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/datetime-defaults.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/datetime.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-UKenglish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-USenglish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-american.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-australian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-austrian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-bahasa.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-basque.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-breton.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-british.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-bulgarian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-canadian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-catalan.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-croatian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-czech.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-danish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-dutch.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-esperanto.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-estonian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-finnish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-french.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-galician.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-german.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-greek.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-hebrew.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-icelandic.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-irish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-italian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-latin.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-lsorbian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-magyar.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-naustrian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-newzealand.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-ngerman.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-norsk.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-polish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-portuges.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-romanian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-russian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-samin.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-scottish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-serbian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-slovak.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-slovene.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-spanish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-swedish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-turkish.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-ukraineb.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-usorbian.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/datetime/dt-welsh.def
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-datetime on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.