How To Install texlive-etex-pkg.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex-pkg.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-etex-pkg.noarch is E-TeX support package

Introduction

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

What is texlive-etex-pkg.noarch

The package provides a straightforward interface to many of the extensions offered by e-TeX; in particular, it modifies LaTeX’s register allocation macros to make use of the extended register range. The etoolbox and etextools packages provide macros that make more sophisticated use of e-TeX’s facilities. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-etex-pkg.noarch

How To Uninstall texlive-etex-pkg.noarch on Amazon Linux 2

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

sudo yum remove texlive-etex-pkg.noarch

texlive-etex-pkg.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etex-pkg/etex.sty

References

Summary

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