How To Install texlive-pstricks-add on CentOS 8

texlive-pstricks-add is A collection of add-ons and bugfixes for PSTricks

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pstricks-add on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-pstricks-add

Collects together examples that have been posted to the pstricks mailing list, together with many additional features for the basic pstricks, pst-plot and pst-node, including bugfixes; - new options for the pspicture environment; - arrows; - braces as node connection/linestyle; - extended axes for plots (e.g., logarithm axes); - polar plots; - plotting tangent lines of curves or functions; - solving and printing differential equationd; - box plots; - matrix plots; and - pie charts. The package makes use of PostScript routines provided by pst-math.

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

Install texlive-pstricks-add 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-pstricks-add using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pstricks-add

Install texlive-pstricks-add 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-pstricks-add using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-pstricks-add

How To Uninstall texlive-pstricks-add on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-pstricks-add package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-pstricks-add

texlive-pstricks-add Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pstricks-add
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pstricks-add/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/contourN.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/data.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/data3.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/dataMul.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/demo0.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/demo1.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/demo2.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/demo3.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/dotmatrix.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/matrix.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/matrix1.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/matrix2.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/olympic.eps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/olympic.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/olympic.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/data/pstricks-add-doc.data
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/pstricks-add-doc.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/pstricks-add-doc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pstricks-add/pstricks-add-doc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks-add
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/pstricks-add/pstricks-add.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks-add
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pstricks-add/pstricks-add.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks-add
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pstricks-add/pstricks-add.sty

References

Summary

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