How To Install texlive-dvips on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvips on CentOS 7. texlive-dvips is A DVI to PostScript driver

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvips on CentOS 7.

What is texlive-dvips

This package has been withdrawn from CTAN, and bundled into the distributions’ package sets. The current sources of dvips may be found in the distribution of dvipsk which forms part of the TeX-live sources. date

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

Install texlive-dvips 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-dvips using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-dvips

Install texlive-dvips 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-dvips using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-dvips

How To Uninstall texlive-dvips on CentOS 7

To uninstall only the texlive-dvips package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-dvips

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Summary

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