How To Install texlive-fontwrap on CentOS 8

texlive-fontwrap is Bind fonts to specific unicode blocks

Introduction

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

What is texlive-fontwrap

The package (which runs under XeLaTeX) lets you bind fonts to specific unicode blocks, for automatic font tagging of multilingual text. The package uses Perl (via perltex) to construct its tables.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fontwrap

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fontwrap

How To Uninstall texlive-fontwrap on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fontwrap

texlive-fontwrap Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontwrap
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontwrap/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap/fontwrap.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap/fontwrap.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap/fontwrap_example.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/fontwrap/fontwrap_example.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontwrap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/fontwrap/fontwrap.sty

References

Summary

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