How To Install texlive-ocgx2 on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ocgx2 on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-ocgx2
This package serves as a drop-in replacement for the packages ocgx by Paul Gaborit and ocg-p by Werner Moshammer for the creation of PDF Layers. It re-implements the functionality of the ocg, ocgx, and ocg-p packages and adds support for all known engines and back-ends including ps2pdf/Distiller (Xe)LaTeX(x) - dvipdfmx pdfLaTeX and LuaLaTeX . It also ensures compatibility with the media9 and animate packages.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-ocgx2 on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-ocgx2.
Install texlive-ocgx2 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-ocgx2 using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-ocgx2
Install texlive-ocgx2 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-ocgx2 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-ocgx2
How To Uninstall texlive-ocgx2 on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-ocgx2 package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-ocgx2
texlive-ocgx2 Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ocgx2
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ocgx2/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ocgx2
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ocgx2/ChangeLog
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ocgx2/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ocgx2
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ocgx2/fixocgx.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ocgx2/ocgbase.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ocgx2/ocgx2.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ocgx2 on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.