How To Install texlive-opcit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-opcit in Fedora 36. texlive-opcit is Footnote-style bibliographical references

Introduction

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

What is texlive-opcit

This package addresses the problem of expressing citations in a style that is natural for humanities studies, yet does not interfere with the flow of text (as author-year styles do). The package differs from footbib in that it uses real footnotes, potentially in the same series as any of the document’s other footnotes. Opcit also, as its name implies, avoids repetition of full citations, achieving this, to a large extent, automatically.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-opcit

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-opcit

How To Uninstall texlive-opcit on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-opcit

texlive-opcit Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-opcit
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-opcit/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/opcit
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/bibtex/bst/opcit/opcit.bst
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/opcit
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/opcit/opcit.sty

References

Summary

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