How To Install xhtml2ps on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install xhtml2ps on CentOS 8.
What is xhtml2ps
X-html2ps is freely-available GUI front-end for html2ps, a HTML-to-PostScript converter.
We can use yum or dnf to install xhtml2ps on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install xhtml2ps.
Install xhtml2ps 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 xhtml2ps using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install xhtml2ps
Install xhtml2ps 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 xhtml2ps using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install xhtml2ps
How To Uninstall xhtml2ps on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the xhtml2ps package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove xhtml2ps
xhtml2ps Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/xhtml2ps
/usr/share/applications/xhtml2ps.desktop
/usr/share/doc/xhtml2ps
/usr/share/doc/xhtml2ps/README
/usr/share/licenses/xhtml2ps
/usr/share/licenses/xhtml2ps/LICENSE
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install xhtml2ps on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.