How To Install texlive-filecontents on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-filecontents on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-filecontents
LaTeX2e’s filecontents and filecontents* environments enable a LaTeX source file to generate external files as it runs through LaTeX. However, there are two limitations of these environments can only be used in the preamble of a document. The filecontents package removes these limitations, letting you overwrite existing files and letting you use filecontents/filecontents* anywhere.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-filecontents on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-filecontents.
Install texlive-filecontents 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-filecontents using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-filecontents
Install texlive-filecontents 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-filecontents using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-filecontents
How To Uninstall texlive-filecontents on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-filecontents package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-filecontents
texlive-filecontents Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-filecontents
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-filecontents/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/filecontents
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/filecontents/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/filecontents/filecontents.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/filecontents
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/filecontents/filecontents.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-filecontents on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.