How To Install texlive-lettrine on CentOS 7

Introduction

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

What is texlive-lettrine

The lettrine package supports various dropped capitals styles, typically those described in the French typographic books. In particular, it has facilities for the paragraph text’s left edge to follow the outline of capitals that have a regular shape (such as “A” and “V”). date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-lettrine

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-lettrine

How To Uninstall texlive-lettrine on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-lettrine

References

• texlive-lettrine website

Summary

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