How To Install texlive-sparklines on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sparklines on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-sparklines
Sparklines are intense, simple, wordlike graphics (so named by Edward Tufte). In lieu of a more detailed introduction, Professor Tufte’s site has an early release of a chapter on sparklines. A PHP implementation may be found at SourceForge. A sparkline can be added using the sparkline environment. Also, you can add sparkling rectangles for the median and special sparkling dots in red or blue. The package requires pdflatex; sparklines cannot appear in a dvi file. The sparklines package uses pgf, and does not work with pictex.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-sparklines on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-sparklines.
Install texlive-sparklines 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-sparklines using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-sparklines
Install texlive-sparklines 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-sparklines using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-sparklines
How To Uninstall texlive-sparklines on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-sparklines package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-sparklines
texlive-sparklines Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sparklines
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sparklines/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sparklines
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sparklines/sparklines.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sparklines on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).