How To Install texlive-underscore on CentOS 8

texlive-underscore is Control the behaviour of “_” in text

Introduction

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

What is texlive-underscore

With the package, _ in text mode (i.e., \textunderscore) prints an underscore so that hyphenation of words either side of it is not affected; a package option controls whether an actual hyphenation point appears after the underscore, or merely a break point. The package also arranges that, while in text, ‘_’ itself behaves as \textunderscore (the behaviour of _ in maths mode is not affected. We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-underscore on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-underscore.

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-underscore

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-underscore

How To Uninstall texlive-underscore on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-underscore

texlive-underscore Package Contents on CentOS 8

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

References

Summary

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