How To Install texlive-filemod on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-filemod in Fedora 36. texlive-filemod is Provide file modification times, and compare them

Introduction

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

What is texlive-filemod

The package provides macros to read and compare the modification dates of files. The files may be .tex files, images or other files (as long as they can be found by LaTeX). It uses the \pdffilemoddate primitive of pdfLaTeX to find the file modification date as PDF date string, parses the string and returns the value to the user. The package will also work for DVI output with recent versions of the LaTeX compiler which uses pdfLaTeX in DVI mode. The functionality is provided by purely expandable macros or by faster but non-expandable ones.

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

Install texlive-filemod 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-filemod using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-filemod

Install texlive-filemod 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-filemod using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-filemod

How To Uninstall texlive-filemod on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-filemod

texlive-filemod Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-filemod
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-filemod/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/filemod
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/filemod/filemod-expmin.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/filemod/filemod.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/filemod
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/filemod/filemod-expmin.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/filemod/filemod.sty

References

Summary

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