How To Install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-a2ping in Fedora 36. texlive-a2ping is Advanced PS, PDF, EPS converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36.

What is `texlive-a2ping`

a2ping is a Perl script command line utility written for Unix that converts many raster image and vector graphics formats to EPS or PDF and other page description formats. Accepted input file formats are PNM, BMP, GIF, LBM, XPM, PCX, TGA. Accepted output formats are EPS, PCL5, PDF, PDF1, PBM, PGM, PPM, PS, markedEPS, markedPS, PNG, XWD, BMP, TIFF, JPEG, GIF, XPM. a2ping delegates the low- level work to Ghostscript (GS), pdftops and sam2p. a2ping fixes many glitches during the EPS to EPS conversion, so its output is often more compatible and better embeddable than its input.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-a2ping.

Install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-a2ping using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-a2ping

Install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-a2ping using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-a2ping

How To Uninstall texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-a2ping package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-a2ping

texlive-a2ping Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/a2ping
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-a2ping
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-a2ping/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/a2ping.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/a2ping
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/a2ping/HISTORY.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/a2ping
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/a2ping/a2ping.pl

References

texlive-a2ping website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-a2ping on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).