How To Install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-latex2man
A tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a man-page format understood by the Unix man(1) command. Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced. Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text feature.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-latex2man.
Install texlive-latex2man 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-latex2man using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-latex2man
Install texlive-latex2man 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-latex2man using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-latex2man
How To Uninstall texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-latex2man package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-latex2man
texlive-latex2man Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/latex2man
/usr/share/info/latex2man.info.gz
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-latex2man
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-latex2man/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/latex2man.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/CHANGES
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/INSTALL
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/THIS-IS-VERSION-1.26
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man-CHANGES.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.css
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.texi
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.trans
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/latex2man/latex2man.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/latex2man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/latex2man/latex2man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latex2man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latex2man/latex2man.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/latex2man/latex2man.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.