How To Install texlive-unisugar on CentOS 8

texlive-unisugar is Define syntactic sugar for Unicode LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-unisugar

The package allows the user to define shorthand aliases for single Unicode characters, and also provides support for such aliases in RTL-text. The package requires an TeX-alike system that uses Unicode input in a native way XeTeX and LuaTeX.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-unisugar

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-unisugar

How To Uninstall texlive-unisugar on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-unisugar

texlive-unisugar Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-unisugar
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-unisugar/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/gedit-mixed-sugar.png
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/gedit-mixed-traditional.png
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/sugar.png
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/traditional.png
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/unisugar.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/unisugar/unisugar.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/unisugar
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/unisugar/unisugar.sty

References

Summary

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