How To Install texlive-prerex on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-prerex in Fedora 36. texlive-prerex is Interactive editor and macro support for prerequisite charts

Introduction

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

What is texlive-prerex

This package consists of prerex.sty, a LaTeX package for producing charts of course nodes linked by arrows representing pre- and co-requisites, and prerex, an interactive program for creating and editing chart descriptions. The implementation of prerex.sty uses PGF, so that it may be used equally happily with LaTeX or pdfLaTeX; prerex itself is written in C. The package includes source code for a previewer application, a lightweight Qt-4 and poppler-based prerex-enabled PDF viewer.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-prerex

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-prerex

How To Uninstall texlive-prerex on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-prerex

texlive-prerex Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-prerex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-prerex/gpl.txt
/usr/share/man/man5/prerex.5.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/prerex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/prerex/prerex.sty

References

Summary

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