How To Install texlive-spix on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-spix in Fedora 36. texlive-spix is Yet another TeX compilation tool

Introduction

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

What is texlive-spix

SpiX offers a way to store information about the compilation process for a tex file inside the tex file itself. Just write the commands as comments in the tex files, and SpiX will extract and run those commands. Everything is stored in the tex file (so that you are not missing some piece of information that is located somewhere else), in a human-readable format (no need to know SpiX to understand it).

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-spix

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-spix

How To Uninstall texlive-spix on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-spix

texlive-spix Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/spix
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-spix
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-spix/gpl3.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/spix.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/spix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/spix/CHANGELOG.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/spix/LICENSE.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/spix/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/spix/spix.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/spix
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/spix/spix.py

References

Summary

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