How To Install texlive-plipsum on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-plipsum in Fedora 36. texlive-plipsum is ‘Lorem ipsum’ for Plain TeX developers

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-plipsum`

The package provides a paragraph generator designed for use in Plain TeX documents. The paragraphs generated contain many ‘f- groups’ (ff, fl etc.) so the text can act as a test of the ligatures of the font in use.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-plipsum

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-plipsum

How To Uninstall texlive-plipsum on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-plipsum

texlive-plipsum Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-plipsum
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-plipsum/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/plipsum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/plipsum/plipsum.tex

References

texlive-plipsum website

Summary

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