How To Install texlive-babel on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is texlive-babel

The package manages culturally-determined typographical (and other) rules, and hyphenation patterns for a wide range of languages. A document may select a single language to be supported, or it may select several, in which case the document may switch from one language to another in a variety of ways. Note that the package has contributions for several languages that remain to be incorporated. Examples are (Hungarian); Serbian written in cyrillic; Spanish; and Spanish, using Mexican conventions.. Users of XeTeX are advised to use polyglossia rather than Babel. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-babel

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-babel

How To Uninstall texlive-babel on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-babel

References

• texlive-babel website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-babel on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.