How To Install texlive-metaobj on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-metaobj in Fedora 36. texlive-metaobj is MetaPost package providing high-level objects

Introduction

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

What is texlive-metaobj

METAOBJ is a large metapost package providing high-level objects. It implements many of PSTricks’ features for node connections, but also trees, matrices, and many other things. It more or less contains boxes.mp and rboxes.mp. There is a large (albeit not complete) documentation distributed with the package. It is easily extensible with new objects.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-metaobj

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-metaobj

How To Uninstall texlive-metaobj on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-metaobj

texlive-metaobj Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metaobj
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metaobj/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/connections.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/metaobj.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/mobjstandard.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/proofex.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/pstricksex1.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/pstricksex2.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/pstricksex3.mp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/metaobj/pstricksex4.mp

References

Summary

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