How To Install texlive-grayhints on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-grayhints in Fedora 36. texlive-grayhints is Produce ‘gray hints’ to a variable text field

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-grayhints`

The package provides JavaScript code snippets to create ‘gray hints’. Gray hints, as the author terms them, are text that appears initially in a text field that gives a short hint as to what the contents of the text field should be. For example, a text field might contain the hint ‘First Name’, or a date field might read ‘yyyy/mm/dd’. As soon as the field comes into focus, the hint disappears. It reappears when the field is blurred and the user did not enter any text into the field. The package works for dvips/Distiller, pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and XeLaTeX.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-grayhints

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-grayhints

How To Uninstall texlive-grayhints on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-grayhints

texlive-grayhints Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-grayhints
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-grayhints/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/doc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/doc/grayhints.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/doc/grayhints_man.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/doc/grayhints_man.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples/gh-eforms.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples/gh-eforms.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples/gh-fmts-eforms.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples/gh-fmts-hyperref.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/grayhints/examples/gh-hyperref.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/grayhints
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/grayhints/grayhints.sty

References

texlive-grayhints website

Summary

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