How To Install texlive-index on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-index on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-index
This is a reimplementation of LaTeX’s indexing macros to provide better support for indexing. For example, it supports multiple indexes in a single document and provides a more robust \index command. It supplies short hand notations for the \index command (^{word}) and a * variation of \index (abbreviated _{word}) that prints the word being indexed, as well as creating an index entry for it.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-index on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-index.
Install texlive-index 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-index using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-index
Install texlive-index 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-index using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-index
How To Uninstall texlive-index on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-index package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-index
texlive-index Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/index
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/index/xagsm.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/index/xplain.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/TODO
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/agsmtst.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/autind.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/index.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/plaintst.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/sample.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/index/test.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/index
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/index/bibref.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/index
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/index/autind.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/index/bibref.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/index/index.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-index on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
