How To Install texlive-tetex on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tetex
on AlmaLinux 8.
What is texlive-tetex
teTeX was a comprehensive distribution of TeX, LaTeX and family, designed for ease of compilation, installation and customisation. In 2006, Thomas Esser announced he would no longer be able to support, or to produce new versions of, teTeX. With the appearance of TeX live 2007 (whose Unix-system TeX support originally derived from teTeX), no-one should be using teTeX at all, in new applications. One of the “schemes” available when installing TeX live provides a configuration very close to that of the old teTeX, but using modern versions of programs and packages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-tetex
on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tetex.
Install texlive-tetex 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-tetex
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tetex
Install texlive-tetex 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-tetex
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tetex
How To Uninstall texlive-tetex on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-tetex
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tetex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tetex
on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.