How To Install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-mathspec
The mathspec package provides an interface to typeset mathematics in XeLaTeX with arbitrary text fonts using fontspec as a backend. The package is under development and later versions might to be incompatible with this version, as this version is incompatible with earlier versions. The package requires at least version 0.9995 of XeTeX.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-mathspec.
Install texlive-mathspec 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-mathspec using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-mathspec
Install texlive-mathspec 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-mathspec using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-mathspec
How To Uninstall texlive-mathspec on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-mathspec package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-mathspec
texlive-mathspec Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathspec
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathspec/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/mathspec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/mathspec/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/mathspec/mathspec.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/mathspec/mathspec.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/mathspec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/mathspec/mathspec.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.