How To Install texlive-xkcdcolors on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xkcdcolors in Fedora 36. texlive-xkcdcolors is xkcd names of colors

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xkcdcolors

In the year 2010, Randall Munroe on posted a really funny and nice article on xkcd. He made a very curious experiment showing colors to a lot of people and asking to name each one. Afterward, he processed the data and sorted the names for each color by popularity – that means, how many people gave the same name to the same color. This package makes the collected color names usable with LaTeX.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xkcdcolors

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xkcdcolors

How To Uninstall texlive-xkcdcolors on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xkcdcolors

texlive-xkcdcolors Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xkcdcolors
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xkcdcolors/lppl1.3c.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkcdcolors
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkcdcolors/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkcdcolors/lppl-1-3c_license.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkcdcolors/xkcdcolors-manual.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xkcdcolors/xkcdcolors-manual.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkcdcolors
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xkcdcolors/xkcdcolors.sty

References

Summary

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