How To Install texlive-vpe on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-vpe on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-vpe
VPE is a system to make the equivalent of “source special” marks in a PDF file. Clicking on a mark will activate an editor, pointing at the source line that produced the text that was marked. The system comprises a perl file (vpe.pl) and a LaTeX package (vpe.sty); it will work with PDF files generated via LaTeX/dvips, pdfTeX (version 0.14 or better), and LaTeX/VTeX. Using the LaTeX/dvips or pdfLaTeX routes, the (pdf)TeX processor should be run with shell escapes enabled.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-vpe on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-vpe.
Install texlive-vpe 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-vpe using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-vpe
Install texlive-vpe 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-vpe using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-vpe
How To Uninstall texlive-vpe on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-vpe package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-vpe
texlive-vpe Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/vpe
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-vpe
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-vpe/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/vpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/vpe/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/vpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/vpe/vpe.pl
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/vpe
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/vpe/vpe.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-vpe on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
