How To Install texlive-soup on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-soup in Fedora 36. texlive-soup is Generate alphabet soup puzzles

Introduction

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

What is texlive-soup

Generate alphabet soup puzzles (aka word search puzzles), and variations using numbers or other symbols. Provides macros to generate an alphabet soup style puzzle (also known as word search puzzles or “find-the-word” puzzles). Allow creating numbersoup and soups with custom symbol sets.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-soup

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-soup

How To Uninstall texlive-soup on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-soup

texlive-soup Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-soup
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-soup/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/soup
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/soup/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/soup/soup.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/soup
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/soup/soup.sty

References

Summary

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