How To Install texlive-pdfcolmk on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdfcolmk in Fedora 36. texlive-pdfcolmk is Improved colour support under pdfTeX (legacy stub)

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pdfcolmk

The package used to provide macros that emulated the ‘colour stack’ functionality of dvips. The colour stack deals with colour manipulations when asynchronous events (like page-breaking) occur. At the time the package was written, pdfTeX did not (yet) have such a stack, though dvips had had one for a long time. This package was an experimental solution to the problem, and worked best with pdfeTeX. For current releases of pdfTeX (later than version 1.40.0, released in 2007), this package is not needed, since “real” colour stacks are available. The present pdfcolmk is therefore just an empty stub that does nothing at all, just in case there are still documents that reference it. The documented source of the original package is still available at the github repository.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pdfcolmk

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pdfcolmk

How To Uninstall texlive-pdfcolmk on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pdfcolmk

texlive-pdfcolmk Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfcolmk
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfcolmk/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfcolmk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfcolmk/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfcolmk
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfcolmk/pdfcolmk.sty

References

Summary

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