How To Install texlive-mathspec on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathspec in Fedora 36. texlive-mathspec is Specify arbitrary fonts for mathematics in XeTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mathspec

The mathspec package provides an interface to typeset mathematics in XeLaTeX with arbitrary text fonts using fontspec as a backend. The package is under development and later versions might to be incompatible with this version, as this version is incompatible with earlier versions. The package requires at least version 0.9995 of XeTeX.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mathspec

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mathspec

How To Uninstall texlive-mathspec on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mathspec

texlive-mathspec Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathspec
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathspec/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/mathspec
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/mathspec/mathspec.sty

References

Summary

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