How To Install texlive-dvipdfmx on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvipdfmx on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-dvipdfmx
Dvipdfmx (formerly dvipdfm-cjk) is a development of dvipdfm created to support multi-byte character encodings and large character sets for East Asian languages. Dvipdfmx, if “called” with the name dvipdfm, operates in a “dvipdfm compatibility” mode, so that users of the both packages need only keep one executable. A secondary design goal is to support as many “PDF” features as does pdfTeX. There being no documentation as such, users are advised to consult the documentation of dvipdfm (as well, of course, as the package Readme.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-dvipdfmx on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-dvipdfmx.
Install texlive-dvipdfmx 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-dvipdfmx using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-dvipdfmx
Install texlive-dvipdfmx 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-dvipdfmx using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-dvipdfmx
How To Uninstall texlive-dvipdfmx on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-dvipdfmx package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-dvipdfmx
texlive-dvipdfmx Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dvipdfm
/usr/bin/dvipdfmx
/usr/bin/dvipdft
/usr/bin/ebb
/usr/bin/extractbb
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dvipdfmx
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dvipdfmx/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/dvipdfm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvipdfmx.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvipdft.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/ebb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/extractbb.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/xdvipdfmx.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/dvipdfm.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/mwicks.bb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/mwicks.jpeg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/sample.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/something.bb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/something.eps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/something.fig
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/something.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/transistor.bb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/transistor.eps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/transistor.fig
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfm/transistor.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-special.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx-special.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/fdl-1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/tug2003-slides-src.zip
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/tug2003-slides.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/dvipdfmx/tug2005.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvipdfmx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvipdfmx/dvipdfmx.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/cmap/dvipdfmx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/cmap/dvipdfmx/EUC-UCS2
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/cmap/dvipdfmx/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/cmap/dvipdfmx/UTF8-UCS2
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/cid-x.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/ckx.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvipdfmx/updmap/kanjix.map
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/tlpostcode/dvipdfmx.pl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvipdfmx on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.