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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-url.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-url.noarch is Verbatim with URL-sensitive line breaks

Introduction

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

What is texlive-url.noarch

The command \url is a form of verbatim command that allows linebreaks at certain characters or combinations of characters, accepts reconfiguration, and can usually be used in the argument to another command. (The \urldef command provides robust commands that serve in cases when \url doesn’t work in an argument.) The command is intended for email addresses, hypertext links, directories/paths, etc., which normally have no spaces, so by default the package ignores spaces in its argument. However, a package option “allows spaces”, which is useful for operating systems where spaces are a common part of file names. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-url.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-url.noarch

texlive-url.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-url-svn16864.3.2
/usr/share/doc/texlive-url-svn16864.3.2/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/url/url.sty

References

Summary

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