How To Install texlive-usebib on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-usebib on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-usebib
The package is described by its author as “a poor person’s replacement for the more powerful methods provided by biblatex to access data from a .bib file”. Its principle commands are \bibinput (which specifies a database to use) and \usebibdata (which typesets a single field from a specified entry in that database.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-usebib on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-usebib.
Install texlive-usebib 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-usebib using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-usebib
Install texlive-usebib 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-usebib using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-usebib
How To Uninstall texlive-usebib on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-usebib package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-usebib
texlive-usebib Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-usebib
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-usebib/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/usebib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/usebib/usebib.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-usebib on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).