How To Install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-dvisvgm
Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. It provides full font support including virtual fonts, font maps, and sub-fonts. If necessary, dvisvgm vectorizes Metafont’s bitmap output in order to always create lossless scalable output. The embedded SVG fonts can optionally be replaced with graphics paths so that applications that don’t support SVG fonts are enabled to render the graphics properly. Besides many other features, dvisvgm also supports color, emTeX, tpic, PDF mapfile and PostScript specials. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library. For more detailed information, see the project page.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-dvisvgm.
Install texlive-dvisvgm 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-dvisvgm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-dvisvgm
Install texlive-dvisvgm 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-dvisvgm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-dvisvgm
How To Uninstall texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-dvisvgm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-dvisvgm
texlive-dvisvgm Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dvisvgm
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/7263669c2decc495c8acf06e5a916d8b99ac17
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dvisvgm
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dvisvgm/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/dvisvgm.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.