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

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lualibs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.