How To Install texlive-xpdfopen on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xpdfopen in Fedora 36. texlive-xpdfopen is Commands to control PDF readers, under X11

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-xpdfopen`

The command-line programs pdfopen and pdfclose allow you to control the X Window System version of Adobe’s Acrobat Reader from the command line or from within a (shell) script. The programs work with Acrobat Reader 5, 7, 8 and 9 for Linux, xpdf and evince. This version derives from one written by Fabrice Popineau for Microsoft operating systems.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xpdfopen

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xpdfopen

How To Uninstall texlive-xpdfopen on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xpdfopen

texlive-xpdfopen Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/pdfclose
/usr/bin/pdfopen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/18/c7fc76f055dae833e96c7157788bbee4c5193c
/usr/lib/.build-id/9e/9d2482baa1f57e3b11c879691860719a85f305
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfclose.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pdfopen.1.gz

References

texlive-xpdfopen website

Summary

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