How To Install texlive-cyrillic on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-cyrillic on CentOS 7. texlive-cyrillic is Support for Cyrillic fonts in LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-cyrillic

This bundle of macros files provides macro support (including font encoding macros) for the use of Cyrillic characters in fonts encoded under the T2* and X2 encodings. These encodings cover (between them) pretty much every language that is written in a Cyrillic alphabet. This directory is part of the LaTeX “required” distribution.

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-cyrillic

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-cyrillic

How To Uninstall texlive-cyrillic on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-cyrillic

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Summary

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