How To Install texlive-textpos on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-textpos on CentOS 7. texlive-textpos is Place boxes at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page

Introduction

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

What is texlive-textpos

A package to facilitate placement of boxes at absolute positions on the LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, an important one being to help the creation of large-format conference posters. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-textpos

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-textpos

How To Uninstall texlive-textpos on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-textpos

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Summary

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