How To Install texlive-hyphenex on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-hyphenex in Fedora 36. texlive-hyphenex is US English hyphenation exceptions file

Introduction

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

What is texlive-hyphenex

Exceptions for American English hyphenation patterns are occasionally published in the TeX User Group journal TUGboat. This bundle provides alternative Perl and Bourne shell scripts to convert the source of such an article into an exceptions file, together with a recent copy of the article and machine- readable files.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hyphenex

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-hyphenex

How To Uninstall texlive-hyphenex on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hyphenex

texlive-hyphenex Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphenex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphenex/ushyphex.tex

References

Summary

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