How To Install texlive-epstopdf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-epstopdf on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-epstopdf
Epstopdf is a Perl script that converts an EPS file to an ’encapsulated’ PDF file (a single page file whose media box is the same as the original EPS’s bounding box). The resulting file suitable for inclusion by PDFTeX as an image. The script is adapted to run both on Windows and on Unix-alike systems. The script makes use of Ghostscript for the actual conversion to PDF. It assumes Ghostscript version 6.51 or later, and (by default) suppresses its automatic rotation of pages where most of the text is not horizontal. LaTeX users may make use of the epstopdf package, which will run the epstopdf script “on the fly”, thus giving the illusion that PDFLaTeX is accepting EPS graphic files.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-epstopdf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-epstopdf.
Install texlive-epstopdf 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-epstopdf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-epstopdf
Install texlive-epstopdf 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-epstopdf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-epstopdf
How To Uninstall texlive-epstopdf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-epstopdf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-epstopdf
texlive-epstopdf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/epstopdf
/usr/bin/repstopdf
/usr/share/man/man1/epstopdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/repstopdf.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/epstopdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/epstopdf/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/epstopdf/epstopdf.pl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-epstopdf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.