How To Install texlive-blindtext on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-blindtext in Fedora 36. texlive-blindtext is Producing ‘blind’ text for testing

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/).