How To Install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8

texlive-sansmath is Maths in a sans font

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-sansmath

The package defines a new math version sans, and a command \sansmath that behaves somewhat like \boldmath

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-sansmath.

Install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-sansmath using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-sansmath

Install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-sansmath

How To Uninstall texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-sansmath

texlive-sansmath Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sansmath
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sansmath/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sansmath
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sansmath/miscdoc.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sansmath/sansmath.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sansmath/sansmath.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sansmath
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sansmath/sansmath.sty

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sansmath on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.