How To Install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8. texlive-latex2man is Translate LaTeX-based manual pages into Unix man format

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-latex2man

A tool to translate UNIX manual pages written with LaTeX into a man-page format understood by the Unix man(1) command. Alternatively HTML or TexInfo code can be produced. Output of parts of the text may be supressed using the conditional text feature.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-latex2man.

Install texlive-latex2man 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-latex2man using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-latex2man

Install texlive-latex2man 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-latex2man using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-latex2man

How To Uninstall texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-latex2man package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-latex2man

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-latex2man on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.