How To Install texlive-texmate on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-texmate in Fedora 36. texlive-texmate is Comprehensive chess annotation in LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-texmate

TeXmate formats chess games from very simple ascii input. The clean “1. e4 e5; 2. Nf3 Nc6; 3. Bb5 a6” will produce the same results as the sloppier “1 e4 e5; Nf3 Nc6 3.. Bb5 a6”. The resulting format is fully customizable. There are 4 levels of commentary its fonts, punctuation marks, etc., and these are also customizable. The package includes a tool for the creation of diagrams. The package works in conjunction with skak to produce diagrams of the current position automatically. For chess fonts, the package uses the chessfss system.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-texmate

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-texmate

How To Uninstall texlive-texmate on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-texmate

texlive-texmate Package Contents on Fedora 36

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

References

Summary

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