How To Install texlive-awesomebox on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-awesomebox in AlmaLinux 8. texlive-awesomebox is raw admonition blocks in your documents, illustrated with FontAwesome icons

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-awesomebox on AlmaLinux 8.

What is texlive-awesomebox

Awesome Boxes is all about drawing admonition blocks around text to inform or alert readers about something particular. The specific aim of this package is to use FontAwesome icons to ease the illustration of these blocks. This package requires FontAwesome and XeLaTeX or LuaLaTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-awesomebox on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-awesomebox.

Install texlive-awesomebox 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-awesomebox using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-awesomebox

Install texlive-awesomebox 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-awesomebox using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-awesomebox

How To Uninstall texlive-awesomebox on AlmaLinux 8

To uninstall only the texlive-awesomebox package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-awesomebox

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-awesomebox on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.