How To Install texlive-xcolor on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xcolor on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xcolor
Provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like \color{red!30!green!40!blue}.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xcolor on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xcolor.
Install texlive-xcolor 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-xcolor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xcolor
Install texlive-xcolor 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-xcolor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xcolor
How To Uninstall texlive-xcolor on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xcolor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xcolor
texlive-xcolor Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xcolor
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xcolor/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/ChangeLog
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor.lox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor2.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xcolor/xcolor4.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/xcolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/xcolor/xcolor.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/svgnam.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/x11nam.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xcolor on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
