How To Install texlive-pdfprivacy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdfprivacy in Fedora 36. texlive-pdfprivacy is A LaTeX package to remove or suppress pdf meta-data

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-pdfprivacy`

Creating pdfs with pdfLaTeX populates several pdf meta-data fields such as date/time of creation/modification, information about the LaTeX installation (e.g., pdfTeX version), and the relative paths of included pdfs. The pdfprivacy package provides support for emptying several of these pdf meta-data fields as well as suppressing some pdfTeX meta-data entries in the resulting pdf.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pdfprivacy

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pdfprivacy

How To Uninstall texlive-pdfprivacy on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pdfprivacy

texlive-pdfprivacy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfprivacy
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdfprivacy/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfprivacy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfprivacy/LICENSE
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfprivacy/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/pdfprivacy/pdfprivacy.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfprivacy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pdfprivacy/pdfprivacy.sty

References

texlive-pdfprivacy website

Summary

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