How To Install texlive-philokalia on CentOS 8

texlive-philokalia is A font to typeset the Philokalia Books

Introduction

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

What is texlive-philokalia

The philokalia package has been designed to ease the use of the Philokalia-Regular OpenType font with XeLaTeX. The font started as a project to digitize the typeface used to typeset the Philokalia books.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-philokalia

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-philokalia

How To Uninstall texlive-philokalia on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-philokalia

texlive-philokalia Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/philokalia/philokalia.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/philokalia/Philokalia-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia/philokalia.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/philokalia/tuplk.fd

References

Summary

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