How To Install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 7.
What is texlive-makeindex
A general purpose hierarchical index generator; it accepts one or more input files (often produced by a text formatter such as TeX or troff), sorts the entries, and produces an output file which can be formatted. The formats of the input and output files are specified in a style file; by default, input is assumed to be an .idx file, as generated by LaTeX. date
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-makeindex.
Install texlive-makeindex 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-makeindex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-makeindex
Install texlive-makeindex 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-makeindex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-makeindex
How To Uninstall texlive-makeindex on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-makeindex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-makeindex
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makeindex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.