How To Install texlive-breqn on CentOS 8

texlive-breqn is Automatic line breaking of displayed equations

Introduction

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

What is texlive-breqn

The package provides solutions to a number of common difficulties in writing displayed equations and getting high- quality output. For example, it is a well-known inconvenience that if an equation must be broken into more than one line, ’left…right’ constructs cannot span lines. The breqn package makes them work as one would expect whether or not there is an intervening line break. The single most ambitious goal of the package, however, is to support automatic linebreaking of displayed equations. Such linebreaking cannot be done without substantial changes under the hood in the way formulae are processed; the code must be watched carefully, keeping an eye on possible glitches. The bundle also contains the flexisym and mathstyle packages, which are both designated as support for breqn.

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

Install texlive-breqn 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-breqn using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-breqn

Install texlive-breqn 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-breqn using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-breqn

How To Uninstall texlive-breqn on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-breqn

texlive-breqn Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-breqn
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-breqn/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/breqn
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/breqn/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/breqn/breqn.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/breqn/flexisym.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/breqn/mathstyle.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/breqn.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/cmbase.sym
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/flexisym.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/mathpazo.sym
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/mathptmx.sym
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/mathstyle.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/breqn/msabm.sym

References

Summary

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