How To Install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 is Path searching library for TeX-related files

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2.

What is texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686

The library is at the centre of pretty much all Unix-based TeX executable. It is no longer distributed separately, but rather consititutes a central part of the sources of the TeX-live distribution.

We can use yum to install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686.

Install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 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-kpathsea-lib.i686 using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686

How To Uninstall texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2

To uninstall only the texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 package we can use the following command:

sudo yum remove texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686

texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6
/usr/lib/libkpathsea.so.6.1.1
/usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1
/usr/lib/libptexenc.so.1.3.1
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/ls-R
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/web2c
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-config/web2c/updmap.cfg

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-kpathsea-lib.i686 on Amazon Linux 2 using yum.