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

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xunicode.noarch in Amazon Linux 2. texlive-xunicode.noarch is Generate Unicode characters from accented glyphs

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xunicode.noarch

The package supports XeTeX’s (and other putative future similar engines’) need for Unicode characters, in a similar way to what the fontenc does for 8-bit (and the like) fonts accent-glyph sequence to a single Unicode character for output. The package also covers glyphs specified by packages (such as tipa) which define many commands for single text glyphs. date

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

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xunicode.noarch

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

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

sudo yum remove texlive-xunicode.noarch

texlive-xunicode.noarch Package Contents on Amazon Linux 2

/usr/share/doc/texlive-xunicode-svn23897.0.981
/usr/share/doc/texlive-xunicode-svn23897.0.981/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xunicode/xunicode.sty

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Summary

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