How To Install texlive-tex on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-tex
TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX. TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX. The distribution includes the source of Knuth’s TeX book; this source is there to read, as an example of writing TeX – it should not be processed without Knuth’s direct permission.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tex.
Install texlive-tex 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-tex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tex
Install texlive-tex 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-tex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tex
How To Uninstall texlive-tex on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-tex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tex
texlive-tex Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/bin/initex
/usr/bin/tex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb
/usr/lib/.build-id/bb/7cd53587cc772be69ae8317988d94ba310874d
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tex/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/initex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tex.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.