How To Install texlive-testhyphens on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-testhyphens in Fedora 36. texlive-testhyphens is Testing hyphenation patterns

Introduction

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

What is texlive-testhyphens

The package may be used for testing hyphenation patterns or for controlling that specific words are hyphenated as expected. This package implements some old TUGboat code to adapt it to LaTeX with some enhancements. It differs form \showhyphens, because it typesets its output on the document’s output file. It also works with xelatex, where \showhyphens requires a workaround.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-testhyphens

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-testhyphens

How To Uninstall texlive-testhyphens on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-testhyphens

texlive-testhyphens Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-testhyphens
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-testhyphens/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/testhyphens
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/testhyphens/testhyphens.sty

References

Summary

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