How To Install texlive-blindtext on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-blindtext
on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-blindtext
The package provides the commands \blindtext and \Blindtext for creating ‘blind’ text useful in testing new classes and packages, and \blinddocument, \Blinddocument for creating an entire random document with sections, lists, mathematics, etc. The package supports three languages, english, (n)german and latin; the latin option provides a short “lorem ipsum” (for a fuller lorem ipsum text, see the lipsum package).
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-blindtext
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-blindtext.
Install texlive-blindtext 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-blindtext
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-blindtext
Install texlive-blindtext 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-blindtext
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-blindtext
How To Uninstall texlive-blindtext on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-blindtext
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-blindtext
texlive-blindtext Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-blindtext
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-blindtext/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/blindtext
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/blindtext/blindtext.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-blindtext
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).