How To Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-lua-alt-getopt
lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licensed module for Lua, for processing application arguments in the same way as BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do. This module is made available for lua script writers to have consistent command line parsing routines.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt.
Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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-lua-alt-getopt using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt
Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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-lua-alt-getopt using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt
How To Uninstall texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-lua-alt-getopt package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-lua-alt-getopt
texlive-lua-alt-getopt Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/ChangeLog
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/NEWS
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/alt_getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests/test.out
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/lua-alt-getopt/tests/test.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/lua-alt-getopt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/lua-alt-getopt/alt_getopt.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.