How To Install texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8
texlive-lualibs is Additional Lua functions for LuaTeX macro programmers
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-lualibs
Lualibs is a collection of Lua modules useful for general programming. The bundle is based on lua modules shipped with ConTeXt, and are made available in this bundle for use independent of ConTeXt.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-lualibs.
Install texlive-lualibs 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-lualibs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-lualibs
Install texlive-lualibs 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-lualibs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-lualibs
How To Uninstall texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-lualibs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-lualibs
texlive-lualibs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-lualibs
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-lualibs/gpl2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/lualibs
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/lualibs/LICENSE
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/lualibs/NEWS
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/lualibs/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/lualibs/lualibs.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-basic-merged.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-basic.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-boolean.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-compat.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-dir.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-extended-merged.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-extended.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-file.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-function.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-gzip.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-io.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-lpeg.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-lua.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-math.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-md5.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-number.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-os.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-package.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-set.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-string.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-table.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-trac-inf.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-unicode.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-url.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-deb.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-dim.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-fil.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-jsn.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-lua.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-prs.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-sta.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-sto.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-str.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-tab.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs-util-tpl.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/lualibs/lualibs.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.