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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tetex.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-tetex.noarch is scripts and files originally written for or included in teTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-tetex.noarch

teTeX was a comprehensive distribution of TeX, LaTeX and family, designed for ease of compilation, installation and customisation. In 2006, Thomas Esser announced he would no longer be able to support, or to produce new versions of, teTeX. With the appearance of TeX live 2007 (whose Unix-system TeX support originally derived from teTeX), no-one should be using teTeX at all, in new applications. One of the “schemes” available when installing TeX live provides a configuration very close to that of the old teTeX, but using modern versions of programs and packages. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-tetex.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-tetex.noarch

texlive-tetex.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/man/man1/allcm.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/allec.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/allneeded.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvi2fax.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/dvired.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fmtutil-sys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/fmtutil.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsepath.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsetool.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsewhere.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/kpsexpand.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/texlinks.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/updmap-sys.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/updmap.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/fmtutil.cnf.5.gz
/usr/share/man/man5/updmap.cfg.5.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/allcm.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/allneeded.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/dvi2fax.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/dvired.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/kpsetool.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/kpsewhere.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/updmap-sys.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/tetex/updmap.pl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c/updmap.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.builtin35
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.dfaxhigh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.dfaxlo
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.download35
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.gsftopk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.outline
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.pk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/dvips/tetex/config.www
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/09fbbfac.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/0ef0afca.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/10037936.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/1b6d048e.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/71414f53.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/74afc74c.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/aae443f0.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/b6a4d7c7.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/bbad153f.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/d9b29452.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/f7b6d320.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/enc/dvips/tetex/mtex.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/dvipdfm35.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/dvips35.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/mathpple.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/pdftex35.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/fonts/map/dvips/tetex/ps2pk35.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/scripts/tetex/fmtutil-sys.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/scripts/tetex/fmtutil.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/scripts/tetex/texconfig-dialog.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/scripts/tetex/texconfig-sys.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/scripts/tetex/texlinks.sh
/usr/share/texlive/texmf/web2c/updmap.cfg

References

Summary

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