How To Install texlive-charter on CentOS 8

texlive-charter is Charter fonts

Introduction

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

What is texlive-charter

A commercial text font donated for the common good. Support for use with LaTeX is available in freenfss, part of psnfss.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-charter

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-charter

How To Uninstall texlive-charter on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-charter

texlive-charter Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/charter/readme.charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter/bchb8a.afm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8a.afm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter/bchr8a.afm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/bitstrea/charter/bchri8a.afm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchb7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchb8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchb8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchb8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbc7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbc8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbi7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbo7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbo8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbo8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchbo8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchr7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchr8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchr8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchr8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchrc7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchrc8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchri7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchri8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchri8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchri8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchro7t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchro8c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchro8r.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/bitstrea/charter/bchro8t.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/bchb8a.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8a.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/bchr8a.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/bitstrea/charter/bchri8a.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchb7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchb8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchb8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbc7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbc8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbi7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbi8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbo7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbo8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchbo8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchr7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchr8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchr8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchrc7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchrc8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchri7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchri8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchri8t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchro7t.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchro8c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/bitstrea/charter/bchro8t.vf

References

Summary

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