How To Install texlive-pwebmac on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pwebmac in Fedora 36. texlive-pwebmac is Consolidated WEB macros for DVI and PDF output

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-pwebmac`

The original WEB system by Donald Knuth has the macros webmac.tex that produce DVI output only; for historic reasons, it will never be modified (apart from catastrophic errors). Han The Thanh has modified these macros in his pdfwebmac.tex for PDF output (only) with pdfTeX. Jonathan Kew’s XeTeX has similar macros xewebmac.tex by Khaled Hosny that modify webmac.tex for PDF output; these macros can only be used with a specific “TeX engine” each. The present pwebmac package integrates these three WEB macro files similar to cwebmac.tex in Silvio Levy’s and Don Knuth’s CWEB system, so pwebmac.tex can be used with “plain TeX”, pdfTeX, and XeTeX alike. Its initial application is the production of PDF files for all major WEB programs for “TeX and friends” as distributed in TeX Live. For this purpose, the shell script makeall was whipped together; it provides various commandline options and works around several “quirks” in the WEB sources. WEB programmers who want to use pwebmac.tex instead of the default webmac.tex in their programs have to change the first line in the TeX file created by weave. From there, all depends on the “TeX engine” you use.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pwebmac

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pwebmac

How To Uninstall texlive-pwebmac on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pwebmac

texlive-pwebmac Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pwebmac
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pwebmac/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/Xerrorlog.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/index.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/makeall
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/trapman.ch
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/pwebmac/webman.ch
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pwebmac
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/pwebmac/pwebmac.tex

References

texlive-pwebmac website

Summary

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