Information about the package, dvipdfmx, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The dvipdfmx package is designed for, A DVI to PDF translator.
Package Name:
dvipdfmx
Summary:
A DVI to PDF translator
Description:
The dvipdfmx (formerly dvipdfm-cjk) project provides an eXtended version of the dvipdfm, a DVI to PDF translator developed by Mark A. Wicks. The primary goal of this project is to support multi-byte character encodings and large character sets for East Asian languages. The secondary goal is to support as many features as pdfTeX developed by Han The Thanh. This project is a combined work of the dvipdfm-jpn project by Shunsaku Hirata and its modified one, dvipdfm-kor, by Jin-Hwan Cho.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
0
Release:
0.31.20090708cvs.el6
Size:
344 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2+
Control the dvipdfmx package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install dvipdfmx
This command will install dvipdfmx on the server.
yum remove dvipdfmx
This command will un-install dvipdfmx on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dvipdfmx, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove dvipdfmx
This command will un-install dvipdfmx on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dvipdfmx when using the -y flag.
yum update dvipdfmx
This command will update dvipdfmx to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove dvipdfmx, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update dvipdfmx
This command will update dvipdfmx to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove dvipdfmx when using the -y flag.
yum info dvipdfmx
This command will show you core information about the dvipdfmx package.
yum deplist dvipdfmx
This command will show you the dependencies for dvipdfmx. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update dvipdfmx
This command will check if there is an update waiting on dvipdfmx. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.