How To Install texlive-textpos on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-textpos in Fedora 36. texlive-textpos is Place boxes at arbitrary positions on the LaTeX page

Introduction

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

What is texlive-textpos

A package to facilitate placement of boxes at absolute positions on the LaTeX page. There are several reasons why this might be useful, an important one being to help the creation of large-format conference posters. The package depends on everyshi and keyval.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-textpos

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-textpos

How To Uninstall texlive-textpos on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-textpos

texlive-textpos Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-textpos
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-textpos/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/textpos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/textpos/textpos.sty

References

Summary

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