How To Install texlive-bigfoot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-bigfoot.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-bigfoot.noarch is Footnotes for critical editions

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-bigfoot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-bigfoot.noarch

The package aims to provide a ‘one-stop’ solution to requirements for footnotes. It offers apparatus superior to that of the manyfoot; - Footnotes can be formatted in separate paragraphs, or be run into a single paragraph (this choice may be selected per footnote series); - Things you might have expected (like \verb-like material in footnotes, and colour selections over page breaks) now work. Note that the majority of the bigfoot package’s interface is identical to that of manyfoot; users should seek information from that package’s documentation. The bigfoot bundle also provides the perpage and suffix packages. date

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

Install texlive-bigfoot.noarch 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 texlive-bigfoot.noarch using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-bigfoot.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-bigfoot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-bigfoot.noarch package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-bigfoot.noarch

texlive-bigfoot.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-bigfoot-svn15878.0
/usr/share/doc/texlive-bigfoot-svn15878.0/gpl2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bigfoot/bigfoot.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bigfoot/perpage.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/bigfoot/suffix.sty

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-bigfoot.noarch on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.