How To Install texlive-url on CentOS 8

texlive-url is Verbatim with URL-sensitive line breaks

Introduction

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

What is texlive-url

The command \url is a form of verbatim command that allows linebreaks at certain characters or combinations of characters, accepts reconfiguration, and can usually be used in the argument to another command. (The \urldef command provides robust commands that serve in cases when \url doesn’t work in an argument.) The command is intended for email addresses, hypertext links, directories/paths, etc., which normally have no spaces, so by default the package ignores spaces in its argument. However, a package option “allows spaces”, which is useful for operating systems where spaces are a common part of file names.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-url

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-url

How To Uninstall texlive-url on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-url

texlive-url Package Contents on CentOS 8

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

References

Summary

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