How To Install texlive-base on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-base
on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-base
The TeX Live software distribution offers a complete TeX system for a variety of Unix, Macintosh, Windows and other platforms. It encompasses programs for editing, typesetting, previewing and printing of TeX documents in many different languages, and a large collection of TeX macros and font libraries. The distribution includes extensive general documentation about TeX, as well as the documentation for the included software packages.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-base
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-base.
Install texlive-base 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-base
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-base
Install texlive-base 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-base
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-base
How To Uninstall texlive-base on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-base
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-base
texlive-base Package Contents on Fedora 36
/etc/texlive
/etc/texlive/dvips
/etc/texlive/dvips/config
/etc/texlive/tex
/etc/texlive/tex/generic
/etc/texlive/tex/generic/config
/etc/texlive/web2c
/usr/lib/rpm/macros.d/macros.texlive
/usr/share/texlive
/usr/share/texlive/licenses
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/apache2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/artistic2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/bsd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/collection.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/fdl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/gfl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/gfsl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/gpl3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/knuth.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lgpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lgpl2.1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl1.1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/ofl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/other-free.txt
/usr/share/texlive/licenses/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texlive.tlpdb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/csf/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/info
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/man
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/man/man1
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/man/man5
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/config
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/glyphlist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/sfd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texlive
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/source
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/source/fonts
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/source/fonts/zhmetrics
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/bibtex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/web2c
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-local/texmf-compat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-var
/usr/share/texlive/tlpkg/texlive.tlpdb
/usr/share/texmf
/usr/share/texmf.rpmmoved
/var/lib/texmf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-base
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).