How To Install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-dvisvgm
Dvisvgm is a command line utility that converts TeX DVI files to the XML-based Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) format. It provides full font support including virtual fonts, font maps, and sub-fonts. If necessary, dvisvgm vectorizes Metafont’s bitmap output in order to always create lossless scalable output. The embedded SVG fonts can optionally be replaced with graphics paths so that applications that don’t support SVG fonts are enabled to render the graphics properly. Besides many other features, dvisvgm also supports color, emTeX, tpic, PDF mapfile and PostScript specials. Users will need a working TeX installation including the kpathsea library. For more detailed information, see the project page.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-dvisvgm.
Install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-dvisvgm using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-dvisvgm
Install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8 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-dvisvgm using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-dvisvgm
How To Uninstall texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-dvisvgm package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-dvisvgm
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dvisvgm on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.