How To Install texlive-collectbox on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-collectbox in Fedora 36. texlive-collectbox is Collect and process macro arguments as boxes

Introduction

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

What is texlive-collectbox

The package provides macros to collect and process a macro argument (i.e., something which looks like a macro argument) as a horizontal box rather than as a real macro argument. The “arguments” are stored as if they had been saved by \savebox or by the lrbox environment. Grouping tokens \bgroup and \egroup may be used, which allows the user to have the beginning and end of a group in different macro invocations, or to place them in the begin and end code of an environment. Arguments may contain verbatim material or other special use of characters. The macros were designed for use within other macros.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-collectbox

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-collectbox

How To Uninstall texlive-collectbox on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-collectbox

texlive-collectbox Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-collectbox
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-collectbox/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/collectbox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/collectbox/collectbox.sty

References

Summary

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