How To Install texlive-was on CentOS 8

texlive-was is A collection of small packages by Walter Schmidt

Introduction

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

What is texlive-was

A bundle of packages that arise in the author’s area of interest - symbols that work in both maths and text modes; - commas for both decimal separator and maths; and - upright Greek letters in maths.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-was

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-was

How To Uninstall texlive-was on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-was

texlive-was Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-was
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-was/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was/fixmath.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was/gensymb.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was/icomma.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was/readme.1st
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/was/upgreek.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/was
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/was/fixmath.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/was/gensymb.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/was/icomma.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/was/upgreek.sty

References

Summary

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