How To Install texlive on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive
on CentOS 7.
What is texlive
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries. The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation for the included software packages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive.
Install texlive on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install texlive
using yum
by running the following command:
Install texlive 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.
After updating yum database, We can install texlive
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall texlive on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.