How To Install texlive-etex on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex in Fedora 36. texlive-etex is An extended version of TeX, from the NTS project

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on Fedora 36.

What is texlive-etex

An extended version of TeX (which is capable of running as if it were TeX unmodified). E-TeX has been specified by the LaTeX team as the engine for the development of LaTeX2e, in the immediate future; as a result, LaTeX programmers may (in all current TeX distributions) assume e-TeX functionality. The pdftex engine directly incorporates the e-TeX extensions. The development source for e-TeX is the TeX Live source repository.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-etex on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-etex.

Install texlive-etex on Fedora 36 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-etex using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-etex

Install texlive-etex on Fedora 36 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-etex using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-etex

How To Uninstall texlive-etex on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-etex package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-etex

texlive-etex Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-etex/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/etex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/etex/xbmc10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/etex/xbmc10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etex.src
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/etex/etexdefs.lib

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etex on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).