How To Install texlive-fink on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fink on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-fink
This package “looks over your shoulder” and keeps track of files \input’ed (the LaTeX way) or \include’ed in your document. You then have permanent access to the name of the file currently being processed through the macro \finkfile. FiNK also comes with support for AUC-TeX. As of version 2.2.1, FiNK has been deprecated and is not maintained anymore. People interested in FiNK’s functionality are invited to use a package named currfile instead.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-fink on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-fink.
Install texlive-fink 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-fink using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-fink
Install texlive-fink 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-fink using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-fink
How To Uninstall texlive-fink on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-fink package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-fink
texlive-fink Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fink
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fink/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fink
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fink/fink.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fink on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
