How To Install texlive-etoolbox on CentOS 8

texlive-etoolbox is Tool-box for LaTeX programmers using e-TeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-etoolbox

The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as some generic tools which are not strictly related to e-TeX but match the profile of this package. Note that the initial versions of this package were released under the name elatex. The package provides functions that seem to offer alternative ways of implementing some LaTeX kernel commands; nevertheless, the package will not modify any part of the LaTeX kernel.

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

Install texlive-etoolbox 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-etoolbox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-etoolbox

Install texlive-etoolbox 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-etoolbox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-etoolbox

How To Uninstall texlive-etoolbox on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-etoolbox

texlive-etoolbox Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etoolbox
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etoolbox/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty

References

Summary

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