How To Install texlive-xstring on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xstring
The package provides macros for manipulating strings – testing a string’s contents, extracting substrings, substitution of substrings and providing numbers such as string length, position of, or number of recurrences of, a substring. The package works equally in Plain TeX and LaTeX (though e-TeX is always required). The strings to be processed may contain (expandable) macros.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xstring on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xstring.
Install texlive-xstring 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-xstring using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xstring
Install texlive-xstring 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-xstring using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xstring
How To Uninstall texlive-xstring on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xstring package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xstring
texlive-xstring Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xstring
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xstring/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_en.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_en.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_fr.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/xstring/xstring_doc_fr.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/xstring/xstring.tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.
