How To Install texlive-spot on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-spot in Fedora 36. texlive-spot is Spotlight highlighting for Beamer

Introduction

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

What is texlive-spot

The package allows dramatic highlighting of words and phrases by painting shapes around them. It is chiefly intended for use in Beamer presentations, but it can be used in other document classes as well.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-spot

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-spot

How To Uninstall texlive-spot on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-spot

texlive-spot Package Contents on Fedora 36

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

References

Summary

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