How To Install texlive-ncctools on CentOS 8

texlive-ncctools is A collection of general packages for LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ncctools

The NCCtools bundle contains many packages for general use under LaTeX; many are also used by NCC LaTeX. The bundle includes tools for loaded; - watermarks; - counter manipulation (dynamic counters, changing counter numbering with another counter); - improvements to the description environment; - hyphenation of compound words; - new levels of footnotes; - space-filling patterns; - “poor man’s” Black Board Bold symbols; - alignment of the content of a box; - use comma as decimal separator; - boxes with their own crop marks; - page cropmarks; - improvements to fancy headers; - float “styles”, mini floats, side floats; - manually marked footnotes; - extension of amsmath; - control of paragraph skip; - an envelope to the graphicx package; - dashed and multiple rules; - alternative techniques for declarations of sections, captions, and toc- entries; - generalised text-stretching; - generation of new theorem-like environments; - control of the text area; - centred page layouts; and - an un-numbered top-level section.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ncctools

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ncctools

How To Uninstall texlive-ncctools on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ncctools

texlive-ncctools Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ncctools
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ncctools/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/README.source
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/afterpackage.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/changes.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/dcounter.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/desclist.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/extdash.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/manifest.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/manyfoot.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/mboxfill.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccbbb.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccboxes.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/ncccomma.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/ncccropbox.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/ncccropmark.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccfancyhdr.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccfloats.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccfoots.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccmath.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccparskip.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccpic.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccrules.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccsect.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccstretch.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/nccthm.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/ncctools.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/ncctools.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/textarea.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/tocenter.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/topsection.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ncctools/watermark.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/afterpackage.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/dcounter.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/desclist.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/extdash.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/manyfoot.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/mboxfill.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccbbb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccboxes.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/ncccomma.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/ncccropbox.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/ncccropmark.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccfancyhdr.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccfloats.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccfoots.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccmath.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccparskip.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccpic.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccrules.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccsect.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccstretch.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/nccthm.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/textarea.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/tocenter.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/topsection.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ncctools/watermark.sty

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Summary

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