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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-wasysym.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-wasysym.noarch is LaTeX support file to use the WASY2 fonts

Introduction

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

What is texlive-wasysym.noarch

The WASY2 (Waldi Symbol) font by Roland Waldi provides many glyphs like male and female symbols and astronomical symbols, as well as the complete lasy font set and other odds and ends. The wasysym package implements an easy to use interface for these symbols. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-wasysym.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-wasysym.noarch

texlive-wasysym.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-wasysym-svn15878.2.0
/usr/share/doc/texlive-wasysym-svn15878.2.0/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasy.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasyvar.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/wasysym.sty

References

Summary

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