How To Install texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xetex-pstricks

The package provides an indirection scheme for XeTeX to use the pstricks xdvipdfmx.cfg configuration file, so that XeTeX documents will load it in preference to the standard pstricks.con configuration file. With this configuration, many PSTricks features can be used in xelatex or plain xetex documents. date

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

Install texlive-xetex-pstricks 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-xetex-pstricks using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-xetex-pstricks

Install texlive-xetex-pstricks 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-xetex-pstricks using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xetex-pstricks

How To Uninstall texlive-xetex-pstricks on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xetex-pstricks

References

• texlive-xetex-pstricks website

Summary

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