How To Install texlive-tex on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex
on CentOS 7.
What is texlive-tex
TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX. TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX. The distribution includes the source of Knuth’s TeX book; this source is there to read, as an example of writing TeX – it should not be processed without Knuth’s direct permission. date
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-tex
on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tex.
Install texlive-tex on CentOS 7 Using yum
Update yum database with yum
using the following command.
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-tex
using yum
by running the following command:
Install texlive-tex 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.
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-tex
using dnf
by running the following command:
How To Uninstall texlive-tex on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-tex
package we can use the following command:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex
on CentOS 7 using yum
and dnf
.