How To Install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7. texlive-amsfonts is TeX fonts from the American Mathematical Society

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7.

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. date

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-amsfonts.

Install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-amsfonts using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-amsfonts

Install texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-amsfonts using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-amsfonts

How To Uninstall texlive-amsfonts on CentOS 7

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 CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.