How To Install texlive-mkpattern on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mkpattern in Fedora 36. texlive-mkpattern is A utility for making hyphenation patterns

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mkpattern

Mkpattern is a general purpose program for the generation of hyphenation patterns, with definition of letter sets and template-like constructions. It also provides an easy way to handle different input and output encodings, and featgures generation of clean UTF-8 patterns. The package was used for the creation of the Galician patterns.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mkpattern

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mkpattern

How To Uninstall texlive-mkpattern on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mkpattern

texlive-mkpattern Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mkpattern
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mkpattern/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/mkpattern
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/mkpattern/mkpatter.tex

References

Summary

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