How To Install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fmtcount in AlmaLinux 8. texlive-fmtcount is Display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8.

What is texlive-fmtcount

The package provides commands that display the value of a LaTeX counter in a variety of formats (ordinal, text, hexadecimal, decimal, octal, binary etc). The package offers some multilingual support; configurations for use in English (both British and American usage), French (including Belgian and Swiss variants), German, Italian, Portuguese and Spanish documents are provided. This package was originally provided as part of the author’s datetime package, but is now distributed separately.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-fmtcount.

Install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-fmtcount using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fmtcount

Install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fmtcount

How To Uninstall texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fmtcount

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fmtcount on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.