How To Install texlive-thumby on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-thumby in Fedora 36. texlive-thumby is Create thumb indexes for printed books

Introduction

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

What is texlive-thumby

The package can generate thumb indexes for your document. It features printing thumb indexes on one- or two-sided pages, along with background- and foreground-color selection and full LaTeX styling of the chapter numbers in the thumb indexes. The height of each thumb index is automatically chosen based on the number of chapters in your document, while the width is chosen by the user. The package is designed to work with the memoir class, and also requires PerlTeX and tikz/

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-thumby

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-thumby

How To Uninstall texlive-thumby on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-thumby

texlive-thumby Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-thumby
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-thumby/gpl3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/thumby
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/thumby/thumby.sty

References

Summary

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