How To Install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8.
What is texlive-attachfile
Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file attachments – arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon – including things like \includegraphics, tabular, and mathematics. Settings can be made either globally or on a per- attachment basis. Attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing document. The package supports the Created, Modified, and Size keys in the EmbeddedFile’s Params dictionary.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-attachfile.
Install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-attachfile using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-attachfile
Install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-attachfile using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-attachfile
How To Uninstall texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-attachfile package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-attachfile
texlive-attachfile Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-attachfile
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-attachfile/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/attachfile/attachfile.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/attachfile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/attachfile/attachfile.sty
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-attachfile on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.