How To Install texlive-pdfpages on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdfpages on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-pdfpages
This package simplifies the inclusion of external multi-page PDF documents in LaTeX documents. Pages may be freely selected and similar to psnup it is possible to put several logical pages onto each sheet of paper. Furthermore a lot of hypertext features like hyperlinks and article threads are provided. The package supports pdfTeX (pdflatex) and VTeX. With VTeX it is even possible to use this package to insert PostScript files, in addition to PDF files.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-pdfpages on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pdfpages.
Install texlive-pdfpages 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-pdfpages using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-pdfpages
Install texlive-pdfpages 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-pdfpages using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-pdfpages
How To Uninstall texlive-pdfpages on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-pdfpages package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-pdfpages
texlive-pdfpages Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfpages
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfpages/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/dummy-l.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/dummy.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdf-ex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdf-hyp.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdf-toc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfpages/pdfpages.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/pdfpages.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppdvipdfmx.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppdvips.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppluatex.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppnull.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/pppdftex.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppvtex.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfpages/ppxetex.def
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdfpages on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.