How To Install texlive-mathdesign on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathdesign on CentOS 7. texlive-mathdesign is Mathematical fonts to fit with particular text fonts

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mathdesign

The Math Design project offers free mathematical fonts, and “faked” Caps-and-Small-Caps fonts, that fit with existing text fonts. So far, four font families are available family, which corresponds to Adobe Utopia text fonts; - the mdugm family, which corresponds to URW Garamond text fonts; - the mdfga family, which corresponds to the (commercial) Fontsite Garamond text fonts; - the mdbch family, which corresponds to Bitstream Charter text fonts. Each maths font has a range of extra symbols, and blackboard bold and ‘mathcal’ alphabets.

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mathdesign

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mathdesign

How To Uninstall texlive-mathdesign on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mathdesign

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Summary

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