How To Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8. texlive-lua-alt-getopt is Process application arguments the same way as getopt_long

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-lua-alt-getopt

lua_altgetopt is a MIT-licensed module for Lua, for processing application arguments in the same way as BSD/GNU getopt_long(3) functions do. This module is made available for lua script writers to have consistent command line parsing routines.

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

Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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-lua-alt-getopt using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt

Install texlive-lua-alt-getopt 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-lua-alt-getopt using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-lua-alt-getopt

How To Uninstall texlive-lua-alt-getopt on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-lua-alt-getopt package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-lua-alt-getopt

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Summary

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