How To Install texlive-xintsession on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xintsession in Fedora 36. texlive-xintsession is Interactive computing sessions (fractions, floating points, polynomials)

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-xintsession`

This package provides support for interactive computing sessions with etex (or pdftex) executed on the command line, on the basis of the xintexpr and polexpr packages. Once xintsession is loaded, eTeX becomes an interactive computing software capable of executing arbitrary precision calculations, or exact calculations with arbitrarily big fractions. It can also manipulate polynomials as algebraic entities. Numerical variables and functions can be defined during the session, and each evaluation result is stored in automatically labeled variables. A file is automatically created storing inputs and outputs.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xintsession

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xintsession

How To Uninstall texlive-xintsession on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xintsession

texlive-xintsession Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xintsession
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xintsession/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/xintsession
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/plain/xintsession/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/xintsession
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/xintsession/xintsession.tex

References

texlive-xintsession website

Summary

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