How To Install texlive-fonttable on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonttable on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-fonttable
This is a package version of nfssfont.tex (part of the LaTeX distribution); it enables you to print a table of the characters of a font and/or some text (for demonstration or testing purposes), from within a document. (Packages such as testfont and nfssfont.tex provide these facilities, but they run as interactive programs details of what is needed.) Note that the package mftinc also has a \fonttable function; the documentation explains how avoid a clash with that package.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-fonttable on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-fonttable.
Install texlive-fonttable 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-fonttable using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-fonttable
Install texlive-fonttable 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-fonttable using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-fonttable
How To Uninstall texlive-fonttable on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-fonttable package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-fonttable
texlive-fonttable Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fonttable
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fonttable/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fonttable
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fonttable/fonttable.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fonttable on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
