How To Install texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xetex-pstricks
The package provides an indirection scheme for XeTeX to use the pstricks xdvipdfmx.cfg configuration file, so that XeTeX documents will load it in preference to the standard pstricks.con configuration file. With this configuration, many PSTricks features can be used in xelatex or plain xetex documents.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xetex-pstricks.
Install texlive-xetex-pstricks 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-xetex-pstricks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xetex-pstricks
Install texlive-xetex-pstricks 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-xetex-pstricks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xetex-pstricks
How To Uninstall texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xetex-pstricks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xetex-pstricks
texlive-xetex-pstricks Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xetex-pstricks
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xetex-pstricks/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xetex/xetex-pstricks
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xetex/xetex-pstricks/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetex-pstricks
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xetex-pstricks/pstricks.con
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetex-pstricks
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetex-pstricks/pstricks.con
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
