How To Install texlive-ucs on AlmaLinux 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ucs on AlmaLinux 8.
What is texlive-ucs
The bundle provides the ucs package, and utf8x.def, together with a large number of support files. The utf8x.def definition file for use with inputenc covers a wider range of Unicode characters than does utf8.def in the LaTeX distribution. The package provides facilities for efficient use of its large sets of Unicode characters. Glyph production may be controlled by various options, which permits use of non-ASCII characters when coding mathematical formulae. Note that the bundle previously had an alias “unicode”; that alias has now been withdrawn, and no package of that name now exists.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-ucs on AlmaLinux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-ucs.
Install texlive-ucs 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-ucs using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-ucs
Install texlive-ucs 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-ucs using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-ucs
How To Uninstall texlive-ucs on AlmaLinux 8
To uninstall only the texlive-ucs package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-ucs
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ucs on AlmaLinux 8 using yum and dnf.