How To Install texlive-polyglossia on CentOS 8

texlive-polyglossia is Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-polyglossia

This package provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX; it relies on the fontspec package, version 2.0 at least. The current release offers support of 68 languages.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-polyglossia

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-polyglossia

How To Uninstall texlive-polyglossia on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-polyglossia

texlive-polyglossia Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-polyglossia
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-polyglossia/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-arabic.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-arabic.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-korean.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-korean.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-thai.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/example-thai.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/examples.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/examples.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/test-welsh.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/polyglossia/test-welsh.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/arabicdigits.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/arabicdigits.tec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/bengalidigits.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/bengalidigits.tec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/devanagaridigits.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/devanagaridigits.tec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/farsidigits.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/farsidigits.tec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/thaidigits.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/misc/xetex/fontmapping/polyglossia/thaidigits.tec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/arabicnumbers.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/babel-hebrewalph.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/babelsh.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/bengalidigits.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/cal-util.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/devanagaridigits.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/farsical.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-albanian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-amharic.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-arabic.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-armenian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-asturian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-bahasai.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-bahasam.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-basque.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-bengali.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-brazil.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-breton.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-bulgarian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-catalan.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-coptic.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-croatian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-czech.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-danish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-divehi.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-dutch.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-english.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-esperanto.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-estonian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-farsi.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-finnish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-french.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-friulan.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-galician.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-german.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-greek.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-hebrew.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-hindi.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-icelandic.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-interlingua.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-irish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-italian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-kannada.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-khmer.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-korean.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-lao.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-latin.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-latvian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-lithuanian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-lsorbian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-magyar.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-malayalam.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-marathi.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-nko.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-norsk.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-nynorsk.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-occitan.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-piedmontese.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-polish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-portuges.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-romanian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-romansh.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-russian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-samin.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-sanskrit.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-scottish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-serbian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-slovak.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-slovenian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-spanish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-swedish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-syriac.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-tamil.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-telugu.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-thai.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-tibetan.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-turkish.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-turkmen.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-ukrainian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-urdu.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-usorbian.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-vietnamese.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/gloss-welsh.ldf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/hebrewcal.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/hijrical.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/nkonumbers.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia-frpt.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia-tibt.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/polyglossia.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/polyglossia/xgreek-fixes.def

References

Summary

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