How To Install texlive-pst-slpe on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pst-slpe on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-pst-slpe
This PStricks package covers all the colour gradient functionality of pst-grad (part of the base pstricks distribution), and provides the following facilities permits the user to specify an arbitrary number of colours, along with the points at which they are to be reached; - it converts between RGB and HSV behind the scenes; - it provides concentric and radial gradients; - it provides a command \psBall that generates bullets with a three-dimensional appearance; and - uses the xkeyval package for the extended key handling.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-pst-slpe on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pst-slpe.
Install texlive-pst-slpe 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-slpe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-pst-slpe
Install texlive-pst-slpe 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-slpe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-pst-slpe
How To Uninstall texlive-pst-slpe on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-pst-slpe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-pst-slpe
texlive-pst-slpe Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-slpe
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pst-slpe/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-slpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-slpe/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-slpe/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-slpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-slpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-slpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pst-slpe/pst-slpe.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pst-slpe on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.