How To Install texlive-etex on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-etex
An extended version of TeX (which is capable of running as if it were TeX unmodified). E-TeX has been specified by the LaTeX team as the engine for the development of LaTeX, in the immediate future; as a result, LaTeX programmers may (in all current TeX distributions) assume e-TeX functionality.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-etex.
Install texlive-etex 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-etex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-etex
Install texlive-etex 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-etex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-etex
How To Uninstall texlive-etex on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-etex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-etex
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.