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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-makecmds.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-makecmds.noarch is The new \makecommand command always (re)defines a command

Introduction

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

What is texlive-makecmds.noarch

The package provides a \makecommand command, which is like (re)newcommand except it always (re)defines a command. There is also \makeenvironment and \provideenvironment for environments. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-makecmds.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-makecmds.noarch

texlive-makecmds.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-makecmds-svn15878.0
/usr/share/doc/texlive-makecmds-svn15878.0/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/makecmds/makecmds.sty

References

Summary

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