How To Install texlive-fontspec on CentOS 8

texlive-fontspec is Advanced font selection in XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-fontspec

Fontspec is a package for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX. It provides an automatic and unified interface to feature-rich AAT and OpenType fonts through the NFSS in LaTeX running on XeTeX or LuaTeX engines. The package requires the l3kernel and xparse bundles from the LaTeX 3 development team.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fontspec

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fontspec

How To Uninstall texlive-fontspec on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fontspec

texlive-fontspec Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontspec
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontspec/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fontspec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fontspec/CHANGES.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fontspec/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fontspec/fontspec-example.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/fontspec/fontspec.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec-luatex.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec-xetex.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty

References

Summary

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