How To Install texlive-morewrites on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-morewrites in Fedora 36. texlive-morewrites is Always room for a new write stream

Introduction

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

What is texlive-morewrites

The package aims to solve the error “No room for a new \write”, which occurs when the user, or when the user’s packages have ‘allocated too many streams using \newwrite (TeX has a fixed maximum number - 16 - such streams built-in to its code). The package hooks into TeX primitive commands associated with writing to files; it should be loaded near the beginning of the sequence of loading packages for a document. The package uses the l3kernel bundle.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-morewrites

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-morewrites

How To Uninstall texlive-morewrites on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-morewrites

texlive-morewrites Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-morewrites
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-morewrites/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/morewrites
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/morewrites/morewrites.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/morewrites/primargs.sty

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Summary

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