How To Install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-mfware is Supporting tools for use with Metafont

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8.

What is texlive-mfware

A collection of programs for processing the output of Metafont.

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

Install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mfware

Install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mfware

How To Uninstall texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mfware

texlive-mfware Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/bin/gftodvi
/usr/bin/gftopk
/usr/bin/gftype
/usr/bin/mft
/usr/bin/pktogf
/usr/bin/pktype
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/8e606d3b22339b44c2a5f8ba86c963229a101f
/usr/lib/.build-id/21
/usr/lib/.build-id/21/122b50d5f3733909c828766ce4645a7e99d8b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f
/usr/lib/.build-id/6f/32dbba0508a0dc9f53a4522eb3deac2b3485a2
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1
/usr/lib/.build-id/a1/bb4dc99e165ea2aff90b569a39616bea1293f0
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1
/usr/lib/.build-id/b1/498be80c78f07f77e353bd3a917b4875fe82b7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7
/usr/lib/.build-id/e7/a915264f9131e6b8e719f5a0d19fa34bdb4419
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gftodvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftopk.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftype.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mft.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktogf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktype.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/cmbase.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/mplain.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/plain.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/knuth-local
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/knuth-local/e.mft

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.