How To Install texlive-cjk on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-cjk on CentOS 7. texlive-cjk is CJK language support

Introduction

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

What is texlive-cjk

CJK is a macro package for LaTeX, providing simultaneous support for various Asian scripts in many encodings (including Unicode) Japanese, - Korean and - Thai. A special add-on feature is an interface to the Emacs editor (cjk-enc.el) which gives simultaneous, easy-to-use support to a bunch of other scripts in addition to the above scripts, - Russian and - Vietnamese. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-cjk

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-cjk

How To Uninstall texlive-cjk on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-cjk

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Summary

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