How To Install texlive-datatool on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-datatool on CentOS 7.
What is texlive-datatool
The bundle provides six packages be created using LaTeX commands or by importing external files; they may be sorted numerically or alphabetically; repetitive operations (such as mail merging) may be performed on each row of a database, subject to conditions to exclude particular rows; commands are provided to examine database elements, and to convert formats (for example, to convert a numeric element to a format compatible with the fp package; - datapie.sty database may be represented as a pie chart; flexible options allow colouring of the chart, and annotation hooks are available; - dataplot.sty 2-dimensional scatter or line plot; flexible options control of the plot’s overall appearance, and of legends and other extra information; - databar.sty bar chart; overall appearance, colouring and annotation are controllable; - databib.sty a datatool database, and manipulated there before being printed (this permits a LaTeX-based route to printing bibliographies in formats for which no BibTeX style is available); and - person.sty pronoun in a document, thus avoiding cumbersome use of “he/she”, etc. The drawing packages make use of PGF/TikZ for their output. The bundle replaces and supersedes the author’s csvtools bundle.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-datatool on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-datatool.
Install texlive-datatool on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-datatool using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-datatool
Install texlive-datatool 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 texlive-datatool using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-datatool
How To Uninstall texlive-datatool on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-datatool package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-datatool
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-datatool on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.