How To Install texlive-texlive-docindex on CentOS 8

texlive-texlive-docindex is top-level TeX Live doc.html, etc

Introduction

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

What is texlive-texlive-docindex

These files are regenerated as needed, which is often, so we make them a separate package. See the tl-update-auto script for the process.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-texlive-docindex

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-texlive-docindex

How To Uninstall texlive-texlive-docindex on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-texlive-docindex

texlive-texlive-docindex Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/texlive/doc.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive/var/texcatalogue.keywords

References

Summary

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