How To Install texlive-tetex on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tetex on CentOS 7.
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. date
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tetex on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tetex.
Install texlive-tetex 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-tetex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tetex
Install texlive-tetex 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-tetex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tetex
How To Uninstall texlive-tetex on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-tetex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tetex
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tetex on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.
