How To Install texlive-xstring on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xstring on CentOS 7. texlive-xstring is String manipulation for (La)TeX

Introduction

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

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. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xstring

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xstring

How To Uninstall texlive-xstring on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xstring

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Summary

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