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.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lout using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install lout
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.
sudo dnf makecache
After updating yum database, We can install lout using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install lout
How To Uninstall lout on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the lout package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove lout
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install lout on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
