How To Install texlive-xltxtra on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xltxtra on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xltxtra
The package loads the fixltx2e package from the LaTeX distribution, and etex.sty from the e-TeX distribution. The package then patches the - (discretionary hyphen command) to use the current hyphen character (which may be different from than the default, which is the character at the ASCII hyphen slot), and loads the realscripts to patch the \textsuperscript command (from the LaTeX kernel) and the \textsubscript command (from the fixltx2e package). The package is loaded by the fontspec package, so that it should not ordinarily be necessary to load it explicitly. The package relies on the metalogo package for typesetting the XeTeX and XeLaTeX logos.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xltxtra on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xltxtra.
Install texlive-xltxtra 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-xltxtra using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xltxtra
Install texlive-xltxtra 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-xltxtra using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xltxtra
How To Uninstall texlive-xltxtra on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xltxtra package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xltxtra
texlive-xltxtra Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xltxtra
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xltxtra/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xltxtra
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xltxtra/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xltxtra/xltxtra.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xltxtra
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xltxtra on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.