How To Install texlive-xkeyval on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xkeyval on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xkeyval
This package is an extension of the keyval package and offers additional macros for setting keys and declaring and setting class or package options. The package allows the programmer to specify a prefix to the name of the macros it defines for keys, and to define families of key definitions; these all help use in documents where several packages define their own sets of keys.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xkeyval on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xkeyval.
Install texlive-xkeyval 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-xkeyval using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xkeyval
Install texlive-xkeyval 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-xkeyval using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xkeyval
How To Uninstall texlive-xkeyval on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xkeyval package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xkeyval
texlive-xkeyval Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xkeyval
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xkeyval/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkeyval
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkeyval/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkeyval/xkvpream.ble
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/keyval.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/pst-xkey.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkeyval.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvex1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvex2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvex3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvex4.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvtxhdr.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xkeyval/xkvutils.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/pst-xkey.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkeyval.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkveca.cls
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvecb.cls
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvesa.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvesb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvesc.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvltxp.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkeyval/xkvview.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xkeyval on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.