How To Install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 is Path searching library for TeX-related files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64

The library is at the centre of pretty much all Unix-based TeX executable. It is no longer distributed separately, but rather consititutes a central part of the sources of the TeX-live distribution.

We can use yum to install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64.

Install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 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-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64

How To Uninstall texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64

texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/include/kpathsea
/usr/include/kpathsea/absolute.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-auto.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-ctype.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-dir.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-errno.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-fopen.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-limits.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-memstr.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-minmax.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-namemx.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-pathch.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-pathmx.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-proto.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-stat.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-std.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/c-unistd.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/cnf.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/concatn.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/config.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/debug.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/expand.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/getopt.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/hash.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/knj.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/kpathsea.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/lib.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/line.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/magstep.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/mingw32.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/paths.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/pathsearch.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/proginit.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/progname.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/readable.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/str-list.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/str-llist.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/systypes.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/tex-file.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/tex-glyph.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/tex-hush.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/tex-make.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/types.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/variable.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/version.h
/usr/include/kpathsea/win32lib.h
/usr/lib64/libkpathsea.so
/usr/lib64/libptexenc.so

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib-devel.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.