How To Install texlive-xltxtra on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xltxtra on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-xltxtra
This package was previously used to provide a number of features that were useful for typesetting documents with XeLaTeX. Many of those features have now been incorporated into the fontspec package and other packages, but the package persists for backwards compatibility. Nowadays, loading xltxtra will redefine \showhyphens so it works correctly; and define two extra commands
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-xltxtra on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-xltxtra.
Install texlive-xltxtra 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-xltxtra using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-xltxtra
Install texlive-xltxtra 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-xltxtra using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-xltxtra
How To Uninstall texlive-xltxtra on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-xltxtra package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-xltxtra
texlive-xltxtra Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xltxtra
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xltxtra/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xltxtra
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xltxtra/xltxtra.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xltxtra on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).