How To Install texlive-xetexfontinfo on CentOS 8

texlive-xetexfontinfo is Report font features in XeTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xetexfontinfo

A pair of documents to reveal the font features supported by fonts usable in XeTeX. Use OpenType-info.tex for OpenType fonts, and AAT-info.tex for AAT fonts (Mac OS X only).

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xetexfontinfo

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xetexfontinfo

How To Uninstall texlive-xetexfontinfo on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xetexfontinfo

texlive-xetexfontinfo Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xetexfontinfo
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xetexfontinfo/apache2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xetex/xetexfontinfo
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xetex/xetexfontinfo/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetexfontinfo
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetexfontinfo/aat-info.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xetex/xetexfontinfo/opentype-info.tex

References

Summary

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