How To Install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8. BibTool is A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8.

What is BibTool

BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities — and intentions — of BibTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BibTool.

Install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install BibTool

Install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install BibTool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install BibTool

How To Uninstall BibTool on Rocky Linux 8

To uninstall only the BibTool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove BibTool

BibTool Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/bibtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e
/usr/lib/.build-id/5e/eeb9d351c84cb6e82092f7be761a6060e11768
/usr/share/BibTool
/usr/share/BibTool/biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/braces.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/check_y.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/default.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/field.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/improve.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/iso2tex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_bibtex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/month.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/opt.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/sort_fld.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/tex_def.rsc
/usr/share/doc/BibTool
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Changes.tex
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl/bibtool.pl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/README.md
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl/bibtool.tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/bibtool.pdf
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/ref_card.pdf
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bibtool.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.