How To Install texlive-mptopdf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mptopdf on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-mptopdf
The mptopdf script does standalone conversion from mpost to PDF, using the supp-* and syst-* files. They also allow native MetaPost graphics inclusion in LaTeX (via pdftex.def) and ConTeXt. They can be used independently of the rest of ConTeXt, yet are maintained as part of it. So in TeX Live we pull them out to this separate package for the benefit of LaTeX users who do not install the rest of ConTeXt. This can be found on CTAN in macros/pdftex/graphics.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-mptopdf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-mptopdf.
Install texlive-mptopdf 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-mptopdf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-mptopdf
Install texlive-mptopdf 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-mptopdf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-mptopdf
How To Uninstall texlive-mptopdf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-mptopdf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-mptopdf
texlive-mptopdf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/mptopdf
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mptopdf
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mptopdf/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/mptopdf.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/context/scripts/mkii/mptopdf.man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/context/perl/mptopdf.pl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-mis.mkii
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-mpe.mkii
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/supp-pdf.mkii
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/context/base/mkii/syst-tex.mkii
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/context/mptopdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/context/mptopdf/mptopdf.tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mptopdf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.