How To Install texlive-ifplatform on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ifplatform on CentOS 7. texlive-ifplatform is Conditionals to test which platform is being used

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ifplatform

This package uses the (La)TeX extension -shell-escape to establish whether the document is being processed on a Windows or on a Unix-like system (Mac OS X, Linux, etc.), or on Cygwin (Unix environment over a windows system). Booleans provided are also preserves the output of uname on a Unix-like system, which may be used to distinguish between various classes of Unix systems.

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ifplatform

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ifplatform

How To Uninstall texlive-ifplatform on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ifplatform

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Summary

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