How To Install texlive-tasks on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tasks on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-tasks
The reason for the creation of the tasks environment was an unwritten agreement in German maths textbooks (exspecially (junior) high school textbooks) to organize exercises in columns counting horizontally rather than vertically. This is what the tasks package helps to achieve.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tasks on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tasks.
Install texlive-tasks 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-tasks using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tasks
Install texlive-tasks 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-tasks using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tasks
How To Uninstall texlive-tasks on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-tasks package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tasks
texlive-tasks Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tasks
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tasks/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tasks
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tasks/tasks.cfg
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tasks/tasks.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tasks on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
