How To Install texlive-cmap on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-cmap in Fedora 36. texlive-cmap is Make PDF files searchable and copyable

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-cmap on Fedora 36.

What is `texlive-cmap`

The cmap package provides character map tables, which make PDF files generated by pdfLaTeX both searchable and copy-able in acrobat reader and other compliant PDF viewers. Encodings supported are OT1, T1, T2A, T2B, T2C and T5, together with LAE (Arabic), LFE (Farsi) and LGR (Greek) and a variant OT1tt for cmtt-like fonts. The package’s main limitation currently is the inability to work with virtual fonts, because of limitations of pdfTeX. This restriction may be resolved in a future version of pdfTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-cmap on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-cmap.

Install texlive-cmap 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-cmap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-cmap

Install texlive-cmap 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-cmap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-cmap

How To Uninstall texlive-cmap on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-cmap package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-cmap

texlive-cmap Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-cmap
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-cmap/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/cmap.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/lae.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/lfe.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/lgr.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/ot1.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/ot1tt.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/ot6.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/t1.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/t2a.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/t2b.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/t2c.cmap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/cmap/t5.cmap

References

texlive-cmap website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-cmap on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).