How To Install texlive-pst-math on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pst-math on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-pst-math
PostScript lacks a lot of basic operators such as tan, acos, asin, cosh, sinh, tanh, acosh, asinh, atanh, exp (with e base). Also (oddly) cos and sin use arguments in degrees. Pst-math provides all those operators in a header file pst-math.pro with wrappers pst-math.sty and pst-math.tex. In addition, sinc, gauss, gammaln and bessel are implemented (only partially for the latter). pst-math is designed essentially to work with pst- plot but can be used in whatever PS code (such as pstricks SpecialCoor “!”, which is useful for placing labels). The package also provides a routine SIMPSON for numerical integration and a solver of linear equation systems.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-pst-math on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pst-math.
Install texlive-pst-math 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-pst-math using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-pst-math
Install texlive-pst-math 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-pst-math using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-pst-math
How To Uninstall texlive-pst-math on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-pst-math package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-pst-math
texlive-pst-math Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-math
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-math/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math/pst-math-doc.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math/pst-math-doc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-math/pst-math-doc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-math
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-math/pst-math.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-math
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-math/pst-math.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-math
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-math/pst-math.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pst-math on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.