How To Install texlive-pdfcomment on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdfcomment in Fedora 36. texlive-pdfcomment is A user-friendly interface to pdf annotations

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pdfcomment

For a long time pdfLaTeX has offered the command \pdfannot for inserting arbitrary PDF annotations. However, the command is presented in a form where additional knowledge of the definition of the PDF format is indispensable. This package is an answer to the - occasional - questions in newsgroups, about how one could use the comment function of Adobe Reader. At least for the writer of LaTeX code, the package offers a convenient and user-friendly means of using \pdfannot to provide comments in PDF files. Since version v1.1, pdfcomment.sty also supports LaTeX - dvips - ps2pdf, LaTeX - dvipdfmx, and XeLaTeX. Unfortunately, support of PDF annotations by PDF viewers is sparse to nonexistent. The reference viewer for the development of this package is Adobe Reader.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pdfcomment

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pdfcomment

How To Uninstall texlive-pdfcomment on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pdfcomment

texlive-pdfcomment Package Contents on Fedora 36

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

References

Summary

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