How To Install texlive-textfit on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-textfit in Fedora 36. texlive-textfit is Fit text to a desired size

Introduction

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

What is texlive-textfit

Package to fit text to a given width or height by scaling the font. For example by calculating a magstep and applying it to the current font; thus “This” will be very tall, as well as very wide; to scale in just one dimension, use the facilities of the graphicx package.)

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-textfit

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-textfit

How To Uninstall texlive-textfit on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-textfit

texlive-textfit Package Contents on Fedora 36

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

References

Summary

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