How To Install texlive-tex-gyre on CentOS 7
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex-gyre on CentOS 7.
What is texlive-tex-gyre
The TeX-GYRE bundle consists of six font families Adventor is based on the URW Gothic L family of fonts (which is derived from ITC Avant Garde Gothic, designed by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase). TeX Gyre Bonum is based on the URW Bookman L family (from Bookman Old Style, designed by Alexander Phemister). TeX Gyre Chorus is based on URW Chancery L Medium Italic (from ITC Zapf Chancery, designed by Hermann Zapf in 1979). TeX-Gyre Cursor is based on URW Nimbus Mono L (based on Courier, designed by Howard G. Kettler in 1955, for IBM). TeX Gyre Heros is based on URW Nimbus Sans L (from Helvetica, prepared by Max Miedinger, with Eduard Hoffmann in 1957). TeX Gyre Pagella is based on URW Palladio L (from Palation, designed by Hermann Zapf in the 1940s). TeX Gyre Schola is based on the URW Century Schoolbook L family (which was designed by Morris Fuller Benton for the American Type Founders). TeX Gyre Termes is based on the URW Nimbus Roman No9 L family of fonts (whose original, Times, was designed by Stanley Morison together with Starling Burgess and Victor Lardent and first offered by Monotype). The constituent standard faces of each family have been greatly extended, and contain nearly 1200 glyphs each (though Chorus omits Greek support, has no small-caps family and has approximately 900 glyphs). Each family is available in Adobe Type 1 and Open Type formats, and LaTeX support (for use with a variety of encodings) is provided. Vietnamese and Cyrillic characters were added by Han The Thanh and Valek Filippov, respectively. date
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tex-gyre on CentOS 7. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tex-gyre.
Install texlive-tex-gyre 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-tex-gyre using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tex-gyre
Install texlive-tex-gyre 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-tex-gyre using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tex-gyre
How To Uninstall texlive-tex-gyre on CentOS 7
To uninstall only the texlive-tex-gyre package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tex-gyre
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex-gyre on CentOS 7 using yum and dnf.