How To Install texlive-qstest on CentOS 8

texlive-qstest is Bundle for unit tests and pattern matching

Introduction

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

What is texlive-qstest

This is the public release of the qstest bundle (written for DocScape Publisher) (C) 2006, 2007 QuinScape GmbH. The bundle contains the packages ‘makematch’ for matching patterns to targets (with a generalization in the form of pattern lists and keyword lists), and ‘qstest’ for performing unit tests, allowing the user to run a number of logged tests ensuring the consistency of values, properties and call sequences during execution of test code. Both packages make extensive use of in their package documentation, providing illustrated examples that are automatically verified to work as expected. Check the README file for details.

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

Install texlive-qstest 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-qstest using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-qstest

Install texlive-qstest 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-qstest using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-qstest

How To Uninstall texlive-qstest on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-qstest

texlive-qstest Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-qstest
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-qstest/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest/makematch-qs.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest/makematch.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest/qstest-qs.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/qstest/qstest.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/qstest
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/qstest/makematch.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/qstest/qstest.sty

References

Summary

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