How To Install texlive-tex on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex
on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-tex
TeX is a typesetting system that incorporates a macro processor. A TeX source document specifies or incorporates a number of macro definitions that instruct the TeX engine how to typeset the document. The TeX engine also uses font metrics generated by Metafont, or by any of several other mechanisms that incorporate fonts from other sources into an environment suitable for TeX. TeX has been, and continues, a basis and an inspiration for several other programs, including e-TeX and PDFTeX.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-tex
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tex.
Install texlive-tex 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-tex
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tex
Install texlive-tex 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-tex
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tex
How To Uninstall texlive-tex on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-tex
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tex
texlive-tex Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/initex
/usr/bin/tex
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb
/usr/lib/.build-id/eb/7d9f0bdac4a885300bcd8ecc4f122884fdc027
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tex
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tex/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/initex.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/tex.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/fmtutil.cnf.d/tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tex
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).