How To Install texlive.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.
What is texlive.x86_64
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries. The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation for the included software packages.
We can use yum to install texlive.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.x86_64.
Install texlive.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.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive.x86_64
How To Uninstall texlive.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2
To uninstall only the texlive.x86_64 package we can use the following command:
sudo yum remove texlive.x86_64
texlive.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.