How To Install texlive-xecolor on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xecolor on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xecolor
This is a simple package which defines about 140 different colours using XeTeX’s colour feature. The colours can be used in bidirectional texts without any problem.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xecolor on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xecolor.
Install texlive-xecolor 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-xecolor using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xecolor
Install texlive-xecolor 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-xecolor using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xecolor
How To Uninstall texlive-xecolor on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xecolor package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xecolor
texlive-xecolor Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xecolor
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xecolor/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xecolor/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xecolor/xecolor.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xecolor on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.