How To Install texlive-texliveonfly on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texliveonfly in Fedora 36. texlive-texliveonfly is On-the-fly download of missing TeX live packages

Introduction

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

What is texlive-texliveonfly

The package provides a script that performs ‘on the fly’ downloads of missing packages, while a document is being compiled. (This feature is already available in the MikTeX distribution for Windows machines.) To use the script, replace your (LaTeX) compilation command with texliveonfly.py file.tex (default options are –engine=lualatex and –arguments="- synctex=1 -interaction=nonstopmode", which may all be changed). The script is designed to work on Linux distributions.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-texliveonfly

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-texliveonfly

How To Uninstall texlive-texliveonfly on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-texliveonfly

texlive-texliveonfly Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/texliveonfly
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-texliveonfly
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-texliveonfly/gpl3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/texliveonfly
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/texliveonfly/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texliveonfly
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/texliveonfly/texliveonfly.py

References

Summary

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