How To Install texlive-xecjk on CentOS 8

texlive-xecjk is Support for CJK documents in XeLaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xecjk

A LaTeX package for typesetting CJK documents in the way users have become used to, in the CJK package. The package requires a current version of xtemplate (and hence of the current LaTeX 3 development environment.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xecjk

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xecjk

How To Uninstall texlive-xecjk on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xecjk

texlive-xecjk Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xecjk
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xecjk/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-CJKecglue.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-CJKfntef.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-CM.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-autofake.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-checksingle.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-fallback.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-listings.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-mathblock.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-punctstyle.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-subCJKblock.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/example/xeCJK-example-verbatim.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/xeCJK.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-combine-marks.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-commands.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-symbols.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-symbols.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xeCJK-listings.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xeCJK.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xeCJK.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xeCJKfntef.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-addon.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecjk/xunicode-extra.def

References

Summary

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