How To Install texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo-tex.x86_64 in Amazon Linux 2. texinfo-tex.x86_64 is Tools for formatting Texinfo documentation files using TeX

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texinfo-tex.x86_64

Texinfo is a documentation system that can produce both online information and printed output from a single source file. The GNU Project uses the Texinfo file format for most of its documentation. The texinfo-tex package provides tools to format Texinfo documents for printing using TeX.

We can use yum to install texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texinfo-tex.x86_64.

Install texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texinfo-tex.x86_64 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texinfo-tex.x86_64

How To Uninstall texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texinfo-tex.x86_64 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texinfo-tex.x86_64

texinfo-tex.x86_64 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/bin/pdftexi2dvi
/usr/bin/texi2dvi
/usr/bin/texi2pdf
/usr/bin/texindex
/usr/share/man/man1/pdftexi2dvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2dvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texi2pdf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texindex.1.gz
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/texinfo.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-cs.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-de.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-en.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-es.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-fr.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-hu.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-is.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-it.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nb.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nl.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-nn.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-pl.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-pt.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-ru.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-sr.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-tr.tex
/usr/share/texmf/tex/texinfo/txi-uk.tex

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texinfo-tex.x86_64 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.