How To Install texlive-texdate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texdate in Fedora 36. texlive-texdate is Date printing, formatting, and manipulation in TeX

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-texdate`

TeX and LaTeX provide few facilities for dates by default, though many packages have filled this gap. This package fills it, as well, with a pure TeX-primitive implementation. It can print dates, advance them by numbers of days, weeks, or months, determine the weekday automatically (with an algorithm cribbed from the dayofweek.tex file written by Martin Minow), and print them in (mostly) arbitrary format. It can also print calendars (monthly and yearly) automatically, and can be easily localized for non-English languages.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-texdate

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-texdate

How To Uninstall texlive-texdate on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-texdate

texlive-texdate Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-texdate
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-texdate/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/texdate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/texdate/CHANGES
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/texdate/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/texdate/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/texdate/texdate.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/texdate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/texdate/texdate.sty

References

texlive-texdate website

Summary

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