How To Install texlive-etex on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-etex
An extended version of TeX (which is capable of running as if it were TeX unmodified). E-TeX has been specified by the LaTeX team as the engine for the development of LaTeX, in the immediate future; as a result, LaTeX programmers may (in all current TeX distributions) assume e-TeX functionality.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-etex.
Install texlive-etex 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-etex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-etex
Install texlive-etex 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-etex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-etex
How To Uninstall texlive-etex on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-etex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-etex
texlive-etex Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etex/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/etex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/NTS-FAQ
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_gen.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_man.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_man.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_man.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_ref.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/etex_src.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/legal.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/nts-group.html
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/etex/base/webmerge.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/etex/xbmc10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/etex/xbmc10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.