How To Install epstool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install epstool
on CentOS 7.
What is epstool
Epstool is a utility to create or extract preview images in EPS files, fix bounding boxes and convert to bitmaps. Features * Add EPSI, DOS EPS or Mac PICT previews. * Extract PostScript from DOS EPS files. * Uses Ghostscript to create preview bitmaps. * Create a TIFF, WMF, PICT or Interchange preview from part of a bitmap created by Ghostscript. * works under Win32, Win64, OS/2 and Unix. * works on little-endian machines (Intel) or big endian (Sun Sparc, Motorola) machines.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install epstool
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install epstool.
Install epstool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install epstool
using yum
by running the following command:
Install epstool on CentOS 7 Using dnf
If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first.
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install epstool
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall epstool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the epstool
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install epstool
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.