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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-soul.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-soul.noarch is Hyphenation for letterspacing, underlining, and more

Introduction

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

What is texlive-soul.noarch

Provides hyphenatable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining, striking out, etc., using the TeX hyphenation algorithm to find the proper hyphens automatically. The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by syllable. This is shown in two examples. The package itself does not support UTF-8 input in ordinary (PDF)LaTeX; some UTF-8 support is offered by package soulutf8 date

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

Install texlive-soul.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-soul.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-soul.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-soul.noarch

texlive-soul.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-soul-svn15878.2.4
/usr/share/doc/texlive-soul-svn15878.2.4/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/soul/soul.sty

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Summary

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