How To Install texlive-librarian on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-librarian in Fedora 36. texlive-librarian is Tools to create bibliographies in TeX

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-librarian`

The package extracts information in bib files, makes it available in the current document, and sorts lists of entries according to that information and the user’s specifications. Citation and bibliography styles can then be written directly in TeX, without any use of BibTeX. Creating references thus depends entirely on the user’s skill in TeX. The package works with all formats that use plain TeX’s basic syntactic sugar; the distribution includes a third-party file for ConTeXt and a style file for LaTeX. As an example of use, an Author (Year) style is given in a separate file and explained in the documentation.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-librarian

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-librarian

How To Uninstall texlive-librarian on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-librarian

texlive-librarian Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-librarian
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-librarian/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/librarian
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/librarian/librarian.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/librarian/librarian.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/librarian/t-librarian.tex

References

texlive-librarian website

Summary

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