How To Install texlive-base on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-base in Fedora 36. texlive-base is TeX formatting system

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/).