How To Install texworks on Fedora 34
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks on Fedora 34.
What is texworks
TeXworks is an environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users. You may install the texlive-* packages to make this program useful.
We can use yum or dnf to install texworks on Fedora 34. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texworks.
Install texworks 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 texworks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texworks
Install texworks 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 texworks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texworks
How To Uninstall texworks on Fedora 34
To uninstall only the texworks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texworks
texworks Package Contents on Fedora 34
/usr/bin/texworks
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a
/usr/lib/.build-id/7a/ca030f6f4804f2f8cfea75feff9aea30a9b46c
/usr/lib/.build-id/83
/usr/lib/.build-id/83/3d4fa3c4379ca2d8affe91104f3ac66e6ffc48
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca
/usr/lib/.build-id/ca/11fd0c9b1e9ec75c97fe28c79d1f17d2f8b87f
/usr/lib64/texworks
/usr/lib64/texworks/libTWLuaPlugin.so
/usr/lib64/texworks/libTWPythonPlugin.so
/usr/share/applications/texworks.desktop
/usr/share/doc/texworks
/usr/share/doc/texworks/NEWS
/usr/share/doc/texworks/README.md
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/128x128/apps/TeXworks.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/TeXworks.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/512x512/apps/TeXworks.png
/usr/share/icons/hicolor/64x64/apps/TeXworks.png
/usr/share/licenses/texworks
/usr/share/licenses/texworks/COPYING
/usr/share/man/man1/texworks.1.gz
/usr/share/metainfo/texworks.appdata.xml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks on Fedora 34 using yum and dnf.