How To Install texlive-pst-plot on CentOS 8

texlive-pst-plot is Plot data using PSTricks

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pst-plot

The package provides plotting of data (typically from external files), using PSTricks. Plots my be configured using a wide variety of parameters.

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

Install texlive-pst-plot 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-plot using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pst-plot

Install texlive-pst-plot 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-plot using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-pst-plot

How To Uninstall texlive-pst-plot on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pst-plot

texlive-pst-plot Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-plot
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-plot/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/Data.dat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/LSM.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/LSM2.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/boxplot.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/data.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/data1.dat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/data3.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/dataMul.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/demo.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/demo0.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/demo1.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/demo2.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/demo3.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/dotmatrix.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/pst-plot-doc.eps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/pstricks-add-data9.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/data/test.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot-doc.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot-doc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot-doc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-plot
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-plot/pst-plot97.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-plot
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-plot/pst-plot.sty

References

Summary

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