How To Install texlive-pdftexcmds on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pdftexcmds in Fedora 36. texlive-pdftexcmds is LuaTeX support for pdfTeX utility functions

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pdftexcmds

LuaTeX provides most of the commands of pdfTeX 1.40. However, a number of utility functions are not available. This package tries to fill the gap and implements some of the missing primitives using Lua.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pdftexcmds

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pdftexcmds

How To Uninstall texlive-pdftexcmds on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pdftexcmds

texlive-pdftexcmds Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdftexcmds
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pdftexcmds/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pdftexcmds
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pdftexcmds/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pdftexcmds/pdftexcmds.sty

References

Summary

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