How To Install texlive-silence on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-silence in Fedora 36. texlive-silence is Selective filtering of error messages and warnings

Introduction

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

What is texlive-silence

The package allows the user to filter out unwanted warnings and error messages issued by LaTeX, packages and classes, so they won’t pop out when there’s nothing one can do about them. Filtering goes from the very broad (“avoid all messages by such and such”) to the fine-grained (“avoid messages that begin with…”). Messages may be saved to an external file for later reference.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-silence

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-silence

How To Uninstall texlive-silence on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-silence

texlive-silence Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-silence
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-silence/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/silence
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/silence/silence.sty

References

Summary

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