How To Install texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-etex.noarch is An extended version of TeX, from the NTS project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is `texlive-etex.noarch`

An extended version of TeX (which is capable of running as if it were TeX unmodified). E-TeX has been specified by the LaTeX team as the engine for the development of LaTeX, in the immediate future; as a result, LaTeX programmers may (in all current TeX distributions) assume e-TeX functionality. date

We can use yum to install texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-etex.noarch.

Install texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-etex.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-etex.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-etex.noarch

texlive-etex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-etex-svn22198.2.1
/usr/share/doc/texlive-etex-svn22198.2.1/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/etex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib

References

texlive-etex.noarch website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.