How To Install texlive-ucharcat on CentOS 8

texlive-ucharcat is Implementation of the (new in 2015) XeTeX \Ucharcat command in lua, for LuaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ucharcat

The package implements the \Ucharcat command for LuaLaTeX. \Ucharcat is a new primitive in XeTeX, an extension of the existing \Uchar command, that allows the specification of the catcode as well as character code of the character token being constructed.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ucharcat

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ucharcat

How To Uninstall texlive-ucharcat on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ucharcat

texlive-ucharcat Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ucharcat
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ucharcat/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ucharcat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ucharcat/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ucharcat/ucharcat.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucharcat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ucharcat/ucharcat.sty

References

Summary

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