How To Install texlive-wasysym on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-wasysym on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-wasysym
The WASY2 (Waldi Symbol) font by Roland Waldi provides many glyphs like male and female symbols and astronomical symbols, as well as the complete lasy font set and other odds and ends. The wasysym package implements an easy to use interface for these symbols.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-wasysym on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-wasysym.
Install texlive-wasysym 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-wasysym using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-wasysym
Install texlive-wasysym 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-wasysym using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-wasysym
How To Uninstall texlive-wasysym on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-wasysym package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-wasysym
texlive-wasysym Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-wasysym
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-wasysym/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/wasysym
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/wasysym/wasysym.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/wasysym/wasysym.upl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/wasysym/wasysym.xml
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasy.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/uwasyvar.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/wasysym/wasysym.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-wasysym on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.