How To Install texlive-getfiledate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-getfiledate in Fedora 36. texlive-getfiledate is Find the date of last modification of a file

Introduction

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

What is texlive-getfiledate

The package fetches from the system the date of last modification or opening of an existing file, using the function \pdffilemoddate (present in recent versions of PDFTeX); the user may specify how the date is to be presented.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-getfiledate

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-getfiledate

How To Uninstall texlive-getfiledate on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-getfiledate

texlive-getfiledate Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-getfiledate
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-getfiledate/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/getfiledate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/getfiledate/getfiledate.sty

References

Summary

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