How To Install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8.
What is texlive-amsfonts
An extended set of fonts for use in mathematics, including extra mathematical symbols; blackboard bold letters (uppercase only); fraktur letters; subscript sizes of bold math italic and bold Greek letters; subscript sizes of large symbols such as sum and product; added sizes of the Computer Modern small caps font; cyrillic fonts (from the University of Washington); Euler mathematical fonts. All fonts are provided as Adobe Type 1 files, and all except the Euler fonts are provided as Metafont source. The distribution also includes the canonical Type 1 versions of the Computer Modern family of fonts. Plain TeX and LaTeX macros for using the fonts are provided.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-amsfonts.
Install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-amsfonts using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-amsfonts
Install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-amsfonts using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-amsfonts
How To Uninstall texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-amsfonts package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-amsfonts
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amsfonts on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.