How To Install paps on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install paps on CentOS 7. paps is Plain Text to PostScript converter

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install paps on CentOS 7.

What is paps

paps is a PostScript converter from plain text file using Pango.

We can use yum or dnf to install paps on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install paps.

Install paps on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install paps

Install paps 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 paps using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install paps

How To Uninstall paps on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove paps

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install paps on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.