How To Install texlive-soul on CentOS 7

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-soul on CentOS 7. texlive-soul is Hyphenation for letterspacing, underlining, and more

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-soul`

Provides hyphenatable spacing out (letterspacing), underlining, striking out, etc., using the TeX hyphenation algorithm to find the proper hyphens automatically. The package also provides a mechanism that can be used to implement similar tasks, that have to treat text syllable by syllable. This is shown in two examples. The package itself does not support UTF-8 input in ordinary (PDF)LaTeX; some UTF-8 support is offered by package soulutf8 date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-soul

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-soul

How To Uninstall texlive-soul on CentOS 7

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-soul

References

texlive-soul website

Summary

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