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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etoolbox.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-etoolbox.noarch is Tool-box for LaTeX programmers using e-TeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-etoolbox.noarch

The etoolbox package is a toolbox of programming facilities geared primarily towards LaTeX class and package authors. It provides LaTeX frontends to some of the new primitives provided by e-TeX as well as some generic tools which are not strictly related to e-TeX but match the profile of this package. Note that the initial versions of this package were released under the name elatex. The package provides functions that seem to offer alternative ways of implementing some LaTeX kernel commands; nevertheless, the package will not modify any part of the LaTeX kernel. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-etoolbox.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-etoolbox.noarch

texlive-etoolbox.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-etoolbox-svn20922.2.1
/usr/share/doc/texlive-etoolbox-svn20922.2.1/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/etoolbox/etoolbox.sty

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Summary

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