How To Install texlive-philokalia on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-philokalia on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-philokalia is A font to typeset the Philokalia Books

Introduction

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

What is texlive-philokalia

The philokalia package has been designed to ease the use of the Philokalia-Regular OpenType font with XeLaTeX. The font started as a project to digitize the typeface used to typeset the Philokalia books.

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

Install texlive-philokalia 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-philokalia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-philokalia

Install texlive-philokalia 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-philokalia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-philokalia

How To Uninstall texlive-philokalia on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-philokalia

texlive-philokalia Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia/philokalia.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/philokalia/Philokalia-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia/philokalia.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia/tuplk.fd

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Summary

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