How To Install texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-attachfile.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-attachfile.noarch is Attach arbitrary files to a PDF document

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-attachfile.noarch

Starting with PDF 1.3 (Adobe Acrobat 4.0), PDF files can contain file attachments – arbitrary files that a reader can extract, just like attachments to an e-mail message. The attachfile package brings this functionality to pdfLaTeX and provides some additional features not available in Acrobat, such as the ability to use arbitrary LaTeX code for the file icon – including things like \includegraphics, tabular, and mathematics. Settings can be made either globally or on a per- attachment basis. Attachfile makes it easy to attach files and customize their appearance in the enclosing document. The package supports the Created, Modified, and Size keys in the EmbeddedFile’s Params dictionary. date

We can use yum to install texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-attachfile.noarch.

Install texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-attachfile.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-attachfile.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-attachfile.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-attachfile.noarch

texlive-attachfile.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-attachfile-svn21866.v1.5b
/usr/share/doc/texlive-attachfile-svn21866.v1.5b/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/attachfile/attachfile.sty

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-attachfile.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.