How To Install texlive-euler on CentOS 8

texlive-euler is Use AMS Euler fonts for math

Introduction

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

What is texlive-euler

Provides a setup for using the AMS Euler family of fonts for mathematics in LaTeX documents. “The underlying philosophy of Zapf’s Euler design was to capture the flavour of mathematics as it might be written by a mathematician with excellent handwriting.” [concrete-tug] The euler package is based on Knuth’s macros for the book ‘Concrete Mathematics’. The text fonts for the Concrete book are supported by the beton package.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-euler

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-euler

How To Uninstall texlive-euler on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-euler

texlive-euler Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-euler
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-euler/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/euler
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/euler/euler.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/euler/legal.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/euler
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/euler/euler.sty

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Summary

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