How To Install rubber on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install rubber on CentOS 7. rubber is An automated system for building LaTeX documents

Introduction

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

What is rubber

This is a building system for LaTeX documents. It is based on a routine that runs just as many compilations as necessary. The module system provides a great flexibility that virtually allows support for any package with no user intervention, as well as pre- and post-processing of the document. The standard modules currently provide support for bibtex, dvips, dvipdfm, pdftex, makeindex. A good number of standard packages are supported, including graphics/graphicx (with automatic conversion between various formats and Metapost compilation).

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

Install rubber on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install rubber

Install rubber 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 rubber using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install rubber

How To Uninstall rubber on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove rubber

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Summary

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