How To Install texlive-ltxnew on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ltxnew in Fedora 36. texlive-ltxnew is A simple means of creating commands

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ltxnew

The package ltxnew provides \new, \renew and \provide prefixes for checking definitions. It is designed to work with e-TeX distributions of LaTeX and relies on the LaTeX internal macro @ifdefinable. Local allocation of counters, dimensions, skips, muskips, boxes, tokens and marks are provided by the etex package. \new and \renew as well as \provide may be used for all kind of control sequences. Please refer to the section “Using \new” of the PDF documentation.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ltxnew

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ltxnew

How To Uninstall texlive-ltxnew on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ltxnew

texlive-ltxnew Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ltxnew
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ltxnew/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxnew
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ltxnew/ltxnew.sty

References

Summary

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