How To Install texlive-eso-pic on CentOS 8

texlive-eso-pic is Add picture commands (or backgrounds) to every page

Introduction

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

What is texlive-eso-pic

Eso-pic is an extension of everyshi. Using everyshi’s \EveryShipout command, eso-pic adds one or more user commands to LaTeX’s shipout actions.

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

Install texlive-eso-pic 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-eso-pic using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-eso-pic

Install texlive-eso-pic 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-eso-pic using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-eso-pic

How To Uninstall texlive-eso-pic on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-eso-pic

texlive-eso-pic Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-eso-pic
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-eso-pic/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-article-test.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-ex1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-ex2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-ex3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-ex4.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-ex5.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-memoir-test.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/eso-pic/eso-pic.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/eso-pic
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/eso-pic/eso-pic.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/eso-pic/showframe.sty

References

Summary

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