How To Install texlive-mfware on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-mfware
A collection of programs for processing the output of Metafont.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-mfware on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-mfware.
Install texlive-mfware 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-mfware using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-mfware
Install texlive-mfware 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-mfware using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-mfware
How To Uninstall texlive-mfware on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-mfware package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-mfware
texlive-mfware Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/gftodvi
/usr/bin/gftopk
/usr/bin/gftype
/usr/bin/mft
/usr/bin/pktogf
/usr/bin/pktype
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/03
/usr/lib/.build-id/03/380d45fdacc8cb0bdd296909a1998549b9cb3c
/usr/lib/.build-id/be/d06b1382c9453856fc7f2093d8bcc7e4eff43e
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7
/usr/lib/.build-id/d7/06505063b3eab5284fb883ecce185c32f8727e
/usr/lib/.build-id/df
/usr/lib/.build-id/df/df0b107ee902767bff1d419d86655079d29f00
/usr/lib/.build-id/f5/576b9fd2dadefec4865ae2e5027d8fdd62da56
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8
/usr/lib/.build-id/f8/5d61e2ba4cc76a3cda4c4db7efb839ee3b16de
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gftodvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftopk.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftype.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mft.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktogf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktype.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/cmbase.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/mplain.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/plain.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/knuth-local
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/knuth-local/e.mft
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.