How To Install texlive-realscripts on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-realscripts on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-realscripts is Access OpenType subscript and superscript glyphs

Introduction

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

What is texlive-realscripts

This small package replaces \textsuperscript and \textsubscript commands by equivalent commands that use OpenType font features to access appropriate glyphs if possible. The package also patches LaTeX’s default footnote command to use this new \textsuperscript for footnote symbols. The package requires fontspec running on either XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX. The package holds functions that were once parts of the xltxtra package, which now loads realscripts by default.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-realscripts

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-realscripts

How To Uninstall texlive-realscripts on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-realscripts

texlive-realscripts Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-realscripts
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-realscripts/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/realscripts
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/realscripts/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/realscripts/realscripts.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/realscripts
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/realscripts/realscripts.sty

References

Summary

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