How To Install texlive-xunicode on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xunicode on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-xunicode
The package supports XeTeX’s (and other putative future similar engines’) need for Unicode characters, in a similar way to what the fontenc does for 8-bit (and the like) fonts accent-glyph sequence to a single Unicode character for output. The package also covers glyphs specified by packages (such as tipa) which define many commands for single text glyphs.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xunicode on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xunicode.
Install texlive-xunicode 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-xunicode using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xunicode
Install texlive-xunicode 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-xunicode using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xunicode
How To Uninstall texlive-xunicode on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-xunicode package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xunicode
texlive-xunicode Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xunicode
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xunicode/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xunicode
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/xelatex/xunicode/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xunicode on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.