How To Install texlive-forms16be on Fedora 36
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/).