How To Install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8. texlive-tipa is Fonts and macros for IPA phonetics characters

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-tipa

These fonts are considered the ‘ultimate answer’ to IPA typesetting. The encoding of these 8-bit fonts has been registered as LaTeX standard encoding T3, and the set of addendum symbols as encoding TS3. ‘Times-like’ Adobe Type 1 versions are provided for both the T3 and the TS3 fonts.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tipa.

Install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-tipa using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-tipa

Install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8 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-tipa using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-tipa

How To Uninstall texlive-tipa on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-tipa

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tipa on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.