How To Install texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-forms16be in Fedora 36. texlive-forms16be is Initialize form properties using big-endian encoding

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36.

What is texlive-forms16be

This package provides support for UTF-16BE Unicode character encoding (called a big-endian character string) for the text string type (PDF Reference, version 1.7, beginning on page 158). Text strings are used in “text annotations, bookmark names, article threads, document information, and so forth” (to partially quote page 158). The particular application is to set property values of form fields, at least those properties that take the text strings as its value. The package contains support for Basic Latin plus the ability to enter any unicode character using the notation \uXXXX, where ‘XXXX’ are four hex digits. The Package works for dvips/Distiller, pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and XeLaTeX.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-forms16be.

Install texlive-forms16be 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-forms16be using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-forms16be

Install texlive-forms16be 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-forms16be using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-forms16be

How To Uninstall texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-forms16be package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-forms16be

texlive-forms16be Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-forms16be
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-forms16be/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/doc/forms16be-man.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/doc/forms16be-man.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/examples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/examples/forms16be-ap.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/examples/forms16be-ef.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/examples/forms16be-ef.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/forms16be/examples/forms16be-hy.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forms16be
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forms16be/forms16be.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forms16be/uni4basic-latin.def

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).