How To Install pslib on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslib
on CentOS 7.
What is pslib
pslib is a C-library to create PostScript files on the fly. It offers many drawing primitives, inclusion of png and eps images and a very sophisticated text rendering including hyphenation, kerning and ligatures. It can read external Type1 fonts and embed them into the output file. It supports pdfmarks which makes it in combination with ghostscript’s pdfwriter an alternative for libraries creating PDF.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install pslib
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install pslib.
Install pslib on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install pslib
using yum
by running the following command:
Install pslib 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 pslib
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall pslib on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the pslib
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install pslib
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.