How To Install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8

texlive-awesomebox is raw admonition blocks in your documents, illustrated with FontAwesome icons

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-awesomebox

Awesome Boxes is all about drawing admonition blocks around text to inform or alert readers about something particular. The specific aim of this package is to use FontAwesome icons to ease the illustration of these blocks. This package requires FontAwesome and XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-awesomebox.

Install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-awesomebox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-awesomebox

Install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-awesomebox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-awesomebox

How To Uninstall texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8

To uninstall only the texlive-awesomebox package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-awesomebox

texlive-awesomebox Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-awesomebox
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-awesomebox/other-free.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/awesomebox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/awesomebox/LICENSE
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/awesomebox/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/awesomebox/awesomebox.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/awesomebox/awesomebox.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/awesomebox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/awesomebox/awesomebox.sty

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-awesomebox on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.