How To Install texlive-titling on CentOS 8

texlive-titling is Control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command

Introduction

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

What is texlive-titling

The titling package provides control over the typesetting of the \maketitle command and \thanks commands, and makes the \title, \author and \date information permanently available. Multiple titles are allowed in a single document. New titling elements can be added and a titlepage title can be centered on a physical page.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-titling

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-titling

How To Uninstall texlive-titling on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-titling

texlive-titling Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-titling
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-titling/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/titling
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/titling/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/titling/titling.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/titling
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/titling/titling.sty

References

Summary

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