How To Install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8. texlive-babel-german is Babel support for documents written in German

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-babel-german

The package defines LaTeX support, within the Babel package, of German (including its Austrian dialect), in both ‘old’ and ’new’ orthographies.

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

Install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-babel-german

Install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8 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-german using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-babel-german

How To Uninstall texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-babel-german

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-babel-german on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.