How To Install texlive-pstricks on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pstricks on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-pstricks
An extensive collection of macros for generating PostScript that is usable with most TeX macro formats, including Plain TeX, LaTeX, AMS-TeX, and AMS-LaTeX. Included are macros for colour, graphics, pie charts, rotation, trees and overlays. It has many special features, including a wide variety of graphics (picture drawing) macros, with a flexible interface and with colour support. There are macros for colouring or shading the cells of tables. The package pstricks-add contains bug-fixes and additions for pstricks (among other things). PSTricks uses PostScript \special commands, which are not supported by PDF(La)TeX. This limitation may be overcome by using either the pst-pdf or the pdftricks package, to generate a PDF inclusion from a PSTricks diagram.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-pstricks on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pstricks.
Install texlive-pstricks 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-pstricks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-pstricks
Install texlive-pstricks 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-pstricks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-pstricks
How To Uninstall texlive-pstricks on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-pstricks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-pstricks
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pstricks on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.