How To Install texlive-ncctools on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ncctools on CentOS 7. texlive-ncctools is A collection of general packages for LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ncctools

The NCCtools bundle contains many packages for general use under LaTeX; many are also used by NCC LaTeX. The bundle includes tools for loaded; - watermarks; - counter manipulation (dynamic counters, changing counter numbering with another counter); - improvements to the description environment; - hyphenation of compound words; - new levels of footnotes; - space-filling patterns; - “poor man’s” Black Board Bold symbols; - alignment of the content of a box; - use comma as decimal separator; - boxes with their own crop marks; - page cropmarks; - improvements to fancy headers; - float “styles”, mini floats, side floats; - manually marked footnotes; - extension of amsmath; - control of paragraph skip; - an envelope to the graphicx package; - dashed and multiple rules; - alternative techniques for declarations of sections, captions, and toc- entries; - generalised text-stretching; - generation of new theorem-like environments; - control of the text area; - centred page layouts; and - an un-numbered top-level section. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ncctools

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ncctools

How To Uninstall texlive-ncctools on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ncctools

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Summary

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