How To Install texlive-pictex on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pictex on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-pictex
PicTeX is an early, and very comprehensive drawing package, that mostly draws by placing myriads of small dots to make up pictures. It has a tendency to run out of space, most especially of allowable dimensions registers; packages m-pictex and pictexwd deal with the register problem, in different ways. Note that full documentation may be bought via the PC-TeX site, though a command summary is available as free software. Alternatively, a front-end package such as mathsPiC, which covers all of PicTeX and has a complete and free manual, could be used.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-pictex on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-pictex.
Install texlive-pictex 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-pictex using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-pictex
Install texlive-pictex 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-pictex using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-pictex
How To Uninstall texlive-pictex on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-pictex package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-pictex
texlive-pictex Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pictex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pictex/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/errorbars.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/latexpicobjs.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/piccorr.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/picmore.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/pictex.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/pictex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/pictexwd.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/pictexwd.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/pointers.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/postpictex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/prepictex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/texpictex.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/pictex/tree.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pictex on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).