How To Install texlive-l3packages on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-l3packages in Fedora 36. texlive-l3packages is High-level LaTeX3 concepts

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-l3packages on Fedora 36.

What is `texlive-l3packages`

This collection contains implementations for aspects of the LaTeX3 kernel, dealing with higher-level ideas such as the Designer Interface. The packages here are considered broadly stable (The LaTeX3 Project does not expect the interfaces to alter radically). These packages are built on LaTeX2e conventions at the interface level, and so may not migrate in the current form to a stand-alone LaTeX3 format. Packages provided declaring document commands xfp, an expandable IEEE 754 FPU for LaTeX l3keys2e, which makes the facilities of the kernel module l3keys available for use by LaTeX 2e packages xtemplate, which provides a means of defining generic functions using a key-value syntax xfrac, which provides flexible split-level fractions

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-l3packages on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-l3packages.

Install texlive-l3packages 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-l3packages using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-l3packages

Install texlive-l3packages 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-l3packages using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-l3packages

How To Uninstall texlive-l3packages on Fedora 36

To uninstall only the texlive-l3packages package we can use the following command:

sudo dnf remove texlive-l3packages

texlive-l3packages Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-l3packages
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-l3packages/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/l3keys2e
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/l3keys2e/l3keys2e.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xfp
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xfp/xfp.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xfrac
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xfrac/xfrac.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-2018-04-12.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-2020-10-01.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse-generic.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.ltx
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xtemplate
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/l3packages/xtemplate/xtemplate.sty

References

texlive-l3packages website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-l3packages on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).