How To Install texlive-amstex on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amstex on CentOS 7.
What is texlive-amstex
AMSTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Michael Spivak for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) during 1983- 1985 and is described in the book ‘The Joy of TeX’. It is based on Plain TeX, and provides many features for producing more professional-looking maths formulas with less burden on authors. More recently, the focus of attention has switched to amslatex, but AMSTeX remains as a working system.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-amstex on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-amstex.
Install texlive-amstex 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-amstex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-amstex
Install texlive-amstex 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-amstex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-amstex
How To Uninstall texlive-amstex on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-amstex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-amstex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amstex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
