How To Install texlive-natbib on CentOS 8

texlive-natbib is Flexible bibliography support

Introduction

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

What is texlive-natbib

Provides a style with author-year and numbered references, as well as much detailed of support for other bibliography use. Provides versions of the standard BibTeX styles that are compatible with natbib - plainnat, unsrtnat, abbrnat. The bibliography styles produced by custom-bib are designed from the start to be compatible with natbib.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-natbib

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-natbib

How To Uninstall texlive-natbib on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-natbib

texlive-natbib Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-natbib
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-natbib/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/natbib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/natbib/abbrvnat.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/natbib/plainnat.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/natbib/unsrtnat.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/README.1st
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/README.v831b
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natbib.ltx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natbib.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natnotes.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/natbib/natnotes.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib/bibentry.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/natbib/natbib.sty

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Summary

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