How To Install texlive-rcs on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-rcs on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-rcs
The rcs package utilizes the inclusion of RCS supplied data in LaTeX documents. It’s upward compatible to all rcs styles I know of. In particular, you can easily - access values of every RCS field in your document - put the checkin date on the titlepage - put RCS fields in a footline You can typeset revision logs. Not in verbatim – real LaTeX text! But you need a configurable RCS for that. Refer to the user manual for more detailed information. You can also configure the rcs package easily to do special things for any keyword. This bundle comes with a user manual, an internal interface description, full documentation of the implementation, style information for AUC- TeX, and test cases.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-rcs on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-rcs.
Install texlive-rcs 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-rcs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-rcs
Install texlive-rcs 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-rcs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-rcs
How To Uninstall texlive-rcs on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-rcs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-rcs
texlive-rcs Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-rcs
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-rcs/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/CATALOG
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/History
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/INSTALL
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/License
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/MANIFEST
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/rcs-conf.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/rcs/rcs-user.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/rcs
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/rcs/rcs.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-rcs on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.