How To Install lout on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install lout
on CentOS 7.
What is lout
Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text output is also available, PDF output is limited but working (e.g. no graphics). Lout is inherently multilingual. Adding new languages is easy.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install lout
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install lout.
Install lout on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install lout
using yum
by running the following command:
Install lout 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 lout
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall lout on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lout
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lout
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.