How To Install texlive-etextools on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-etextools in Fedora 36. texlive-etextools is e-TeX tools for LaTeX users and package writers

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-etextools`

The package provides many (purely expandable) tools for LaTeX Extensive list management (csv lists, lists of single tokens/characters, etoolbox lists); purely expandable loops (csvloop, forcsvloop, etc.); conversion (csvtolist, etc.)); addition/deletion (csvadd, listdel, etc.); Expansion and group control on tokens, characters and control sequences (\iffirstchar, \ifiscs, \ifdefcount, @ifchar…); Tests on strings (\ifstrnum, \ifuppercase, \DeclareStringFilter…); Purely expandable macros with options (\FE@testopt, \FE@ifstar) or modifiers (\FE@modifiers); Some purely expandable numerics (\interval, \locinterplin). The package is dependent on the etex and the etoolbox packages.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-etextools

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-etextools

How To Uninstall texlive-etextools on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-etextools

texlive-etextools Package Contents on Fedora 36

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

References

texlive-etextools website

Summary

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