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texlive-dvips


Information about the package, texlive-dvips, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The texlive-dvips package is designed for, A DVI to PostScript converter for the TeX text formatting system.


Package Name:

texlive-dvips

Summary:

A DVI to PostScript converter for the TeX text formatting system

Description:

Dvips converts .dvi files, for example those produced by the TeX text formatting system, to PostScript(TM) format. If you are installing texlive, so that you can use the TeX text formatting system without direct PDF compilation, consider to install texlive-dvips. In addition, you will need to install texlive-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX), and xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X).

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

2007

Release:

60.el6_7

Size:

193 k

Repository:

base

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2 and BSD and Public Domain and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and LPPL



Handy Yum Commands for texlive-dvips


Control the texlive-dvips package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install texlive-dvips

This command will install texlive-dvips on the server.

yum remove texlive-dvips

This command will un-install texlive-dvips on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove texlive-dvips, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y remove texlive-dvips

This command will un-install texlive-dvips 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 texlive-dvips when using the -y flag.

yum update texlive-dvips

This command will update texlive-dvips to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove texlive-dvips, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.

yum -y update texlive-dvips

This command will update texlive-dvips 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 texlive-dvips when using the -y flag.

yum info texlive-dvips

This command will show you core information about the texlive-dvips package.

yum deplist texlive-dvips

This command will show you the dependencies for texlive-dvips. 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 texlive-dvips

This command will check if there is an update waiting on texlive-dvips. 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.