How To Install texlive-punknova on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-punknova in Fedora 36. texlive-punknova is OpenType version of Knuth’s Punk font

Introduction

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

What is texlive-punknova

The font was generated from a MetaPost version of the sources of the ‘original’ punk font. Knuth’s original fonts generated different shapes at random. This isn’t actually possible in an OpenType font; rather, the font contains several variants of each glyph, and uses the OpenType randomize function to select a variant for each invocation.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-punknova

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-punknova

How To Uninstall texlive-punknova on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-punknova

texlive-punknova Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/appdata/punknova.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fonts/punknova
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/punknova
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/punknova/punknova-bold.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/punknova/punknova-boldslanted.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/punknova/punknova-regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/punknova/punknova-slanted.otf

References

Summary

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