How To Install texlive-textpos on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-textpos on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-textpos
A package to facilitate placement of boxes at absolute positions on the LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, an important one being to help the creation of large-format conference posters.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-textpos on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-textpos.
Install texlive-textpos 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-textpos using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-textpos
Install texlive-textpos 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-textpos using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-textpos
How To Uninstall texlive-textpos on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-textpos package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-textpos
texlive-textpos Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-textpos
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-textpos/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/LICENCE
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/VERSION-1.8
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/README.examples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t10.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t4.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t5.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t6.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t7.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t8.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/examples/t9.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/niepraschk-eso-pic.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/niepraschk-eso-pic.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos-example.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/textpos/textpos.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/textpos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/textpos/textpos.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-textpos on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.