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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathspec.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-mathspec.noarch is Specify arbitrary fonts for mathematics in XeTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mathspec.noarch

The mathspec package provides an interface to typeset mathematics in XeLaTeX with arbitrary text fonts using fontspec as a backend. The package is under development and later versions might to be incompatible with this version, as this version is incompatible with earlier versions. The package requires at least version 0.9995 of XeTeX. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mathspec.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-mathspec.noarch

texlive-mathspec.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-mathspec-svn15878.0.2
/usr/share/doc/texlive-mathspec-svn15878.0.2/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/mathspec/mathspec.sty

References

Summary

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