How To Install texlive-amstex on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amstex on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-amstex
AMSTeX is a TeX macro package, originally written by Michael Spivak for the American Mathematical Society (AMS) during 1983- 1985 and is described in the book ‘The Joy of TeX’. It is based on Plain TeX, and provides many features for producing more professional-looking maths formulas with less burden on authors. More recently, the focus of attention has switched to amslatex, but AMSTeX remains as a working system.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-amstex on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-amstex.
Install texlive-amstex 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-amstex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-amstex
Install texlive-amstex 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-amstex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-amstex
How To Uninstall texlive-amstex on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-amstex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-amstex
texlive-amstex Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/amstex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-amstex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-amstex/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/amstex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/fmtutil.cnf.d/amstex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amsguide.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amsguide.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amsppt.doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amsppt.faq
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amsppt.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amstex.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amstinst.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/amstinst.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/amstex/base/joyerr2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amsppt.sti
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amsppt.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amsppt1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amstex.bug
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/base/amstex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/config
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/amstex/config/amstex.ini
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-amstex on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
