How To Install texlive-wasy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-wasy in Fedora 36. texlive-wasy is The wasy fonts (Waldi symbol fonts)

Introduction

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

What is texlive-wasy

This font contains all lasy characters (by L.Lamport, copyright notice in lasychr.mf), and a lot more symbols. Provided are the Metafont files for 5-10pt, and bold and slanted 10pt fonts, together with a .tex and .pdf documentation, and a file for using the fonts in a PLAIN-TeX document. Type-1 fonts by Michael Sharpe and Taco Hoekwater are available as separate package wasy-type1. Support under LaTeX is provided by Axel Kielhorn’s wasysym package.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-wasy

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-wasy

How To Uninstall texlive-wasy on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-wasy

texlive-wasy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-wasy
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-wasy/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/lasychr.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/rsym.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy5.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy6.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy7.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy8.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasy9.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasyb10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasychr.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/wasy/wasysl10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy5.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy6.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy7.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy8.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasy9.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasyb10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/wasy/wasysl10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/wasy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/plain/wasy/wasyfont.tex

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Summary

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