How To Install texlive-tex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.
What is texlive-tex.noarch
TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX. TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX. The distribution includes the source of Knuth’s TeX book; this source is there to read, as an example of writing TeX – it should not be processed without Knuth’s direct permission. date
We can use yum to install texlive-tex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tex.noarch.
Install texlive-tex.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-tex.noarch using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tex.noarch
How To Uninstall texlive-tex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the texlive-tex.noarch package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove texlive-tex.noarch
texlive-tex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
/usr/share/doc/texlive-tex-svn26689.3.1415926
/usr/share/doc/texlive-tex-svn26689.3.1415926/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/tex.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.