How To Install texlive-simpler-wick on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-simpler-wick in Fedora 36. texlive-simpler-wick is Simpler Wick contractions

Introduction

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

What is texlive-simpler-wick

In every quantum field theory course, there will be a chapter about Wick’s theorem and how it can be used to convert a very large product of many creation and annihilation operators into something more tractable and normal ordered. The contractions are denoted with a square bracket over the operators which are being contracted, which used to be rather annoying to typeset in LaTeX as the only other package available was simplewick, which is rather unwieldy. This package provides a simpler syntax for Wick contractions.

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

Install texlive-simpler-wick 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-simpler-wick using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-simpler-wick

Install texlive-simpler-wick 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-simpler-wick using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-simpler-wick

How To Uninstall texlive-simpler-wick on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-simpler-wick

texlive-simpler-wick Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-simpler-wick
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-simpler-wick/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/simpler-wick
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/simpler-wick/simpler-wick.sty

References

Summary

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