How To Install texlive-mailmerge on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mailmerge in Fedora 36. texlive-mailmerge is Repeating text field substitution

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mailmerge

The package mailmerge provides an interface to produce text from a template, where fields are replaced by actual data, as in a database. The package may be used to produce several letters from a template, certificates or other such documents. It allows access to the entry number, number of entries and so on.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mailmerge

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mailmerge

How To Uninstall texlive-mailmerge on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mailmerge

texlive-mailmerge Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mailmerge
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mailmerge/lppl1.2.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mailmerge
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mailmerge/mailmerge.sty

References

Summary

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