How To Install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-polyglossia in AlmaLinux 8. texlive-polyglossia is Modern multilingual typesetting with XeLaTeX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8.

What is texlive-polyglossia

This package provides a complete Babel replacement for users of XeLaTeX; it relies on the fontspec package, version 2.0 at least. The current release offers support of 68 languages.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-polyglossia.

Install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-polyglossia using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-polyglossia

Install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-polyglossia using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-polyglossia

How To Uninstall texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-polyglossia

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-polyglossia on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.