How To Install texlive-lettrine on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lettrine on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-lettrine
The lettrine package supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books. In particular, it has facilities for the paragraph text’s left edge to follow the outline of capitals that have a regular shape (such as “A” and “V”).
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-lettrine on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-lettrine.
Install texlive-lettrine 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-lettrine using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-lettrine
Install texlive-lettrine 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-lettrine using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-lettrine
How To Uninstall texlive-lettrine on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-lettrine package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-lettrine
texlive-lettrine Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-lettrine
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-lettrine/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/W.eps
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/W.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/demo-de.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/demo-de.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/demo.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/demo.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/lettrine/lettrine.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/lettrine.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/lettrine.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/optfile.cfl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/pacl.cfl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/padl.cfl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/pzc2.cfl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/lettrine/pzc3.cfl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lettrine on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.