Information about the package, texlive-afm, which is shipped with common Linux distributions. The texlive-afm package is designed for, A converter for PostScript(TM) font metric files, for use with TeX.
Package Name:
texlive-afm
Summary:
A converter for PostScript(TM) font metric files, for use with TeX
Description:
texlive-afm provides afm2tfm, a converter for PostScript(TM) font metric files. PostScript fonts are accompanied by .afm font metric files which describe the characteristics of each font. To use PostScript fonts with TeX, TeX needs .tfm files that contain similar information. Afm2tfm will convert .afm files to .tfm files. If you are installing texlive in order to use the TeX text formatting system and PostScript files, you will need to install texlive-afm. You will also need to install texlive-dvips (for converting .dvi files to PostScript format for printing on PostScript printers), texlive-latex (a higher level formatting package which provides an easier-to-use interface for TeX), and xdvi (for previewing .dvi files in X). The TeX documentation is located in the texlive-doc package.
Architecture:
x86_64
Version:
2007
Release:
60.el6_7
Size:
49 k
Repository:
base
From Repository:
Licence:
GPLv2 and BSD and Public Domain and LGPLv2+ and GPLv2+ and LPPL
Control the texlive-afm package with the following handy commands outlined below.
yum install texlive-afm
This command will install texlive-afm on the server.
yum remove texlive-afm
This command will un-install texlive-afm on the server. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove texlive-afm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y remove texlive-afm
This command will un-install texlive-afm on the server. When you run this command with th e -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove texlive-afm when using the -y flag.
yum update texlive-afm
This command will update texlive-afm to the latest version. When you run this command, you will be asked if you are sure that you want to remove texlive-afm, so you have to manually confirm that you want to do this.
yum -y update texlive-afm
This command will update texlive-afm to the latest version. When you run this command with the -y flag, you will not be prompted to check that you are sure you want to remove the package - so be sure you absolutely want to remove texlive-afm when using the -y flag.
yum info texlive-afm
This command will show you core information about the texlive-afm package.
yum deplist texlive-afm
This command will show you the dependencies for texlive-afm. Thankfully, when using Yum, if dependencies are required, these are also installed at the same time so you don't have to worry too much about that.
yum check-update texlive-afm
This command will check if there is an update waiting on texlive-afm. When you run this command this will return nothing if there is nothing to update, or, will return the package name if the package is due to be updated.