How To Install texlive-xcolor on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xcolor in Fedora 36. texlive-xcolor is Driver-independent color extensions for LaTeX and pdfLaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xcolor

The package starts from the basic facilities of the color package, and provides easy driver-independent access to several kinds of color tints, shades, tones, and mixes of arbitrary colors. It allows a user to select a document-wide target color model and offers complete tools for conversion between eight color models. Additionally, there is a command for alternating row colors plus repeated non-aligned material (like horizontal lines) in tables. Colors can be mixed like \color{red!30!green!40!blue}.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xcolor

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xcolor

How To Uninstall texlive-xcolor on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xcolor

texlive-xcolor Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xcolor
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xcolor/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/xcolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/dvips/xcolor/xcolor.pro
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/svgnam.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/x11nam.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xcolor/xcolor.sty

References

Summary

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