How To Install texlive-thumbpdf on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-thumbpdf on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-thumbpdf
A Perl script that provides support for thumbnails in pdfTeX and dvips/ps2pdf. The script uses ghostscript to generate the thumbnails which get represented in a TeX readable file that is read by the package thumbpdf.sty to automatically include the thumbnails. This arrangement works with both plain TeX and LaTeX.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-thumbpdf on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-thumbpdf.
Install texlive-thumbpdf 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-thumbpdf using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-thumbpdf
Install texlive-thumbpdf 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-thumbpdf using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-thumbpdf
How To Uninstall texlive-thumbpdf on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-thumbpdf package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-thumbpdf
texlive-thumbpdf Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/thumbpdf
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-thumbpdf
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-thumbpdf/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/thumbpdf.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/thumbpdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/thumbpdf/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/thumbpdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.pl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/thumbpdf/thumbpdf.tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-thumbpdf on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.