How To Install texlive-ekdosis on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ekdosis in Fedora 36. texlive-ekdosis is Typesetting TEI-xml compliant Critical Editions

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-ekdosis`

ekdosis is a LuaLaTeX package designed for multilingual critical editions. It can be used to typeset texts and different layers of critical notes in any direction accepted by LuaTeX. Texts can be arranged in running paragraphs or on facing pages, in any number of columns which in turn can be synchronized or not. In addition to printed texts, ekdosis can convert .tex source files so as to produce TEI-xml compliant critical editions. Database-driven encoding under LaTeX then allows extraction of texts entered segment by segment according to various criteria translations or annotated borrowings between texts.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ekdosis

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ekdosis

How To Uninstall texlive-ekdosis on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ekdosis

texlive-ekdosis Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ekdosis
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ekdosis/fdl.txt
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ekdosis/gpl3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/ekdosis.el
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/ekdosis.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/samples
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/samples/Caesar_BG-6-13-1-tei.xml
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/samples/Caesar_BG-6-13-1.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/samples/Caesar_BG-6-13-1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/lualatex/ekdosis/samples/Makefile
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/ekdosis
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/ekdosis/ekdosis.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/lualatex/ekdosis/ekdosis.sty

References

texlive-ekdosis website

Summary

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