How To Install texlive-xstring on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is texlive-xstring
The package provides macros for manipulating strings – testing a string’s contents, extracting substrings, substitution of substrings and providing numbers such as string length, position of, or number of recurrences of, a substring. The package works equally in Plain TeX and LaTeX (though e-TeX is always required). The strings to be processed may contain (expandable) macros.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-xstring
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xstring.
Install texlive-xstring on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf
using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-xstring
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xstring
Install texlive-xstring on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-xstring
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xstring
How To Uninstall texlive-xstring on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xstring
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xstring
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.