How To Install texlive-xltxtra on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xltxtra on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-xltxtra is “Extras” for LaTeX users of XeTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xltxtra

The package loads the fixltx2e package from the LaTeX distribution, and etex.sty from the e-TeX distribution. The package then patches the - (discretionary hyphen command) to use the current hyphen character (which may be different from than the default, which is the character at the ASCII hyphen slot), and loads the realscripts to patch the \textsuperscript command (from the LaTeX kernel) and the \textsubscript command (from the fixltx2e package). The package is loaded by the fontspec package, so that it should not ordinarily be necessary to load it explicitly. The package relies on the metalogo package for typesetting the XeTeX and XeLaTeX logos.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xltxtra

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xltxtra

How To Uninstall texlive-xltxtra on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xltxtra

texlive-xltxtra Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

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

References

Summary

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