How To Install texlive-seminar on CentOS 8

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Introduction

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

What is texlive-seminar

A class that produces overhead slides (transparencies), with many facilities. The class requires availability of the fancybox package. Seminar is also the basis of other classes, such as prosper. In fact, seminar is not nowadays reckoned a good basis for a presentation – users are advised to use more recent classes such as powerdot or beamer, both of which are tuned to 21st-century presentation styles. Note that the seminar distribution relies on the xcomment package, which was once part of the bundle, but now has a separate existence.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-seminar

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-seminar

How To Uninstall texlive-seminar on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-seminar

texlive-seminar Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-seminar
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-seminar/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/run.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/sem-code.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/sem-make.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/seminar-doc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/seminar-doc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/seminar.bg3
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/seminar.con
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/seminar.doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semlayer.doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp1.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp2.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp3.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/seminar/semsamp3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/npsfont.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/sem-a4.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/sem-dem.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/sem-page.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/semcolor.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/semhelv.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.bg2
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.bug
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.cls
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/seminar.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/semlayer.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/semlcmss.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/semrot.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/slidesec.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/tvz-code.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/tvz-hax.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/seminar/tvz-user.sty

References

Summary

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