How To Install texlive-fontware on CentOS 8

texlive-fontware is fontware package

Introduction

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

What is texlive-fontware

fontware package

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fontware

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fontware

How To Uninstall texlive-fontware on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fontware

texlive-fontware Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/bin/pltotf
/usr/bin/tftopl
/usr/bin/vftovp
/usr/bin/vptovf
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f
/usr/lib/.build-id/1f/4db5766e1667904cd75cca3331ebd8044712bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/40
/usr/lib/.build-id/40/8a9bbf100b339cd59a7e984a8b784cddac922d
/usr/lib/.build-id/77/e78a86a57eb130366eb27f3a42e291c3e2925d
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6
/usr/lib/.build-id/a6/5724615febf97bf064dab3799b99f69b2dd0e3
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontware
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontware/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/pltotf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tftopl.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vftovp.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/vptovf.1.gz

References

Summary

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