How To Install texlive-luatex on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-luatex on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-luatex
LuaTeX is an extended version of pdfTeX using Lua as an embedded scripting language. The LuaTeX project’s main objective is to provide an open and configurable variant of TeX while at the same time offering downward compatibility. LuaTeX uses Unicode (as UTF-8) as its default input encoding, and is able to use modern (OpenType) fonts (for both text and mathematics). It should be noted that LuaTeX is still under development; its specification has been declared stable, but absolute stability may not in practice be assumed.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-luatex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-luatex.
Install texlive-luatex 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-luatex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-luatex
Install texlive-luatex 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-luatex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-luatex
How To Uninstall texlive-luatex on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-luatex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-luatex
texlive-luatex Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/dviluatex
/usr/bin/luajittex
/usr/bin/luatex
/usr/bin/luatex53
/usr/bin/texlua
/usr/bin/texlua53
/usr/bin/texluac
/usr/bin/texluajit
/usr/bin/texluajitc
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e
/usr/lib/.build-id/2e/da1af6742f7723a2ad38ea85ee9186ce2adea1
/usr/lib/.build-id/64
/usr/lib/.build-id/64/725fe8aeca38424fb92f5ccddb479c1275fa9d
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/9a/9d70f98fc0a14e9f9c4148757b6ecd4e494bde
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-luatex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-luatex/gpl2.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/luatex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texlua.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texluac.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-backend.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-callbacks.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-contents.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-enhancements.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-fontloader.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-fonts.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-graphics.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-introduction.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-languages.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-logos.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-lua.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-math.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-modifications.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-nodes.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-style.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-tex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex-titlepage.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/base/luatex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/luatex-unicode-letters.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/luatexiniconfig.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/texmfcnf.lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-luatex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.