How To Install texlive-showcharinbox on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-showcharinbox on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-showcharinbox
The package typesets a character inside a box, showing where reference point is, and displaying width, height, and depth information of the character. The output is like that on page 63 of “The TeXBook” or page 101 of “The METAFONTbook”. The package itself is motivated by Knuth’s macros in the file manmac.tex. Users should note that using a small size for the character inside the box does not make any sense size.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-showcharinbox on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-showcharinbox.
Install texlive-showcharinbox 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-showcharinbox using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-showcharinbox
Install texlive-showcharinbox 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-showcharinbox using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-showcharinbox
How To Uninstall texlive-showcharinbox on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-showcharinbox package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-showcharinbox
texlive-showcharinbox Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-showcharinbox
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-showcharinbox/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/showcharinbox
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/showcharinbox/showcharinbox.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-showcharinbox on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
