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lout


Information about the package, lout, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The lout package is designed for, A document formatting system.


Package Name:

lout

Summary:

A document formatting system

Description:

Lout is a document formatting system designed and implemented by Jeffrey Kingston at the Basser Department of Computer Science, University of Sydney, Australia. The system reads a high-level description of a document similar in style to LaTeX and produces a PostScript file which can be printed on most laser printers and graphic display devices. Plain text output is also available, PDF output is limited but working (e.g. no graphics). Lout is inherently multilingual. Adding new languages is easy.

Architecture:

x86_64

Version:

3.40

Release:

5.el6

Size:

3.3 M

Repository:

epel

From Repository:

Licence:

GPLv2+



Handy Yum Commands for lout


Control the lout package with the following handy commands outlined below.


Command

Description of Command

yum install lout

This command will install lout on the server.

yum remove lout

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

yum -y remove lout

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

yum update lout

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

yum -y update lout

This command will update lout 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 lout when using the -y flag.

yum info lout

This command will show you core information about the lout package.

yum deplist lout

This command will show you the dependencies for lout. 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 lout

This command will check if there is an update waiting on lout. 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.