How To Install BibTool on Fedora 34

BibTool is A Tool for manipulating BibTeX data bases

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on Fedora 34.

What is BibTool

BibTeX provides an easy to use means to integrate citations and bibliographies into LaTeX documents. But the user is left alone with the management of the BibTeX files. The program BibTool is intended to fill this gap. BibTool allows the manipulation of BibTeX files which goes beyond the possibilities — and intentions — of BibTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install BibTool on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install BibTool.

Install BibTool on Fedora 34 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install BibTool using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install BibTool

Install BibTool on Fedora 34 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

Fedora 34 - x86_64                               20 kB/s | 6.6 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 openh264 (From Cisco) - x86_64        1.4 kB/s | 989  B     00:00
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64                       68 kB/s | 6.5 kB     00:00
Fedora 34 - x86_64 - Updates                    3.5 kB/s | 6.2 kB     00:01
Fedora Modular 34 - x86_64 - Updates             17 kB/s | 5.9 kB     00:00
Metadata cache created.

After updating yum database, We can install BibTool using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install BibTool

How To Uninstall BibTool on Fedora 34

To uninstall only the BibTool package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove BibTool

BibTool Package Contents on Fedora 34

/usr/bin/bibtool
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/29
/usr/lib/.build-id/29/f2251d34bfda6081238351870c7beb7c4988e3
/usr/share/BibTool
/usr/share/BibTool/biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/braces.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/check_y.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/default.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/field.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/improve.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/iso2tex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_biblatex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/keep_bibtex.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/month.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/opt.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/sort_fld.rsc
/usr/share/BibTool/tex_def.rsc
/usr/share/doc/BibTool
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Changes.tex
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Perl/bibtool.pl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/README.md
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/THANKS
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/Tcl/bibtool.tcl
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/bibtool.pdf
/usr/share/doc/BibTool/ref_card.pdf
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool
/usr/share/licenses/BibTool/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/bibtool.1.gz

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install BibTool on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.