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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ifetex.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-ifetex.noarch is Provides \ifetex switch

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ifetex.noarch

The package provides the switch \ifetex which indicates whether e-TeX is available or not. The package can be loaded as LaTeX package using \usepackage{ifetex} or in plain TeX using \input ifetex. In either case it aborts silently if the \ifetex macro is already defined. The package’s test is whether \eTeXversion is defined as a primitive; if it is, the package assumes e-TeX features are available. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ifetex.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-ifetex.noarch

texlive-ifetex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-ifetex-svn24853.1.2
/usr/share/doc/texlive-ifetex-svn24853.1.2/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ifetex/ifetex.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/ifetex/ifetex.tex

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Summary

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