How To Install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathspec on CentOS 7. texlive-mathspec is Specify arbitrary fonts for mathematics in XeTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mathspec

The mathspec package provides an interface to typeset mathematics in XeLaTeX with arbitrary text fonts using fontspec as a backend. The package is under development and later versions might to be incompatible with this version, as this version is incompatible with earlier versions. The package requires at least version 0.9995 of XeTeX. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mathspec

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mathspec

How To Uninstall texlive-mathspec on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mathspec

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Summary

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