How To Install texinfo-tex on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo-tex on CentOS 7. texinfo-tex is Tools for formatting Texinfo documentation files using TeX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo-tex on CentOS 7.

What is texinfo-tex

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. The texinfo-tex package provides tools to format Texinfo documents for printing using TeX.

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

Install texinfo-tex on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texinfo-tex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texinfo-tex

Install texinfo-tex 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 texinfo-tex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texinfo-tex

How To Uninstall texinfo-tex on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the texinfo-tex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texinfo-tex

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Summary

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