How To Install texlive-standalone on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-standalone in Fedora 36. texlive-standalone is Compile TeX pictures stand-alone or as part of a document

Introduction

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

What is texlive-standalone

A class and package is provided which allows TeX pictures or other TeX code to be compiled standalone or as part of a main document. Special support for pictures with beamer overlays is also provided. The package is used in the main document and skips extra preambles in sub-files. The class may be used to simplify the preamble in sub-files. By default the preview package is used to display the typeset code without margins. The behaviour in standalone mode may adjusted using a configuration file standalone.cfg to redefine the standalone environment.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-standalone

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-standalone

How To Uninstall texlive-standalone on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-standalone

texlive-standalone Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-standalone
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-standalone/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/standalone
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/standalone/standalone.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/standalone/standalone.cls
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/standalone/standalone.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/standalone
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/standalone/standalone.tex

References

Summary

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