How To Install texlive-fontawesome on CentOS 8

texlive-fontawesome is Font containing web-related icons

Introduction

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

What is texlive-fontawesome

The package offers access to the large number of web-related icons provided by the included font. The package requires the package, fontspec, if run with XeTeX or LuaTeX.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fontawesome

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fontawesome

How To Uninstall texlive-fontawesome on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fontawesome

texlive-fontawesome Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontawesome
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontawesome/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fontawesome/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/fontawesome/fontawesome.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/fontawesome/fontawesomeone.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/fontawesome/fontawesomethree.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/fontawesome/fontawesometwo.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/fontawesome/fontawesome.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome--fontawesomeone.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome--fontawesomethree.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome--fontawesometwo.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/fontawesome/FontAwesome.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/fontawesome.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/fontawesomesymbols-generic.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/fontawesomesymbols-pdftex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/fontawesomesymbols-xeluatex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/ufontawesomeone.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/ufontawesomethree.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontawesome/ufontawesometwo.fd

References

Summary

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