How To Install texlive-media9 on CentOS 8

texlive-media9 is Multimedia inclusion package with Adobe Reader-9/X compatibility

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-media9 on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-media9

The package provides an interface to embed interactive Flash (SWF) and 3D objects (Adobe U3D & PRC), as well as video and sound files or streams in the popular MP4, FLV and MP3 formats into PDF documents with Acrobat-9/X compatibility. Playback of multimedia files uses the built-in Flash Player of Adobe Reader and does, therefore, not depend on external plug-ins. Flash Player supports the efficient H.264 codec for video compression. The package is based on the RichMedia Annotation, an Adobe addition to the PDF specification. It replaces the now obsolete movie15 package.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-media9 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-media9.

Install texlive-media9 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-media9 using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-media9

Install texlive-media9 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-media9 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-media9

How To Uninstall texlive-media9 on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-media9 package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-media9

texlive-media9 Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-media9
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-media9/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/media9
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/media9/ChangeLog
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/media9/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/media9/media9.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/javascript
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/javascript/3Dmenu.js
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/javascript/3Dspintool.js
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/javascript/animation.js
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/javascript/asylabels.js
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/media9.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/pdfbase.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/APlayer.swf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/APlayer9.swf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/SlideShow.swf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/StrobeMediaPlayback.swf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/VPlayer.swf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/media9/players/VPlayer9.swf

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-media9 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.