How To Install texlive-xfakebold on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xfakebold in Fedora 36. texlive-xfakebold is Fake a regular font for bold characters

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xfakebold

This package uses PDF’s text rendering to modify the linewidth of an outline font to get bold characters. It works only for vectorfonts where the glyphs are defined by their outline. The package works both in text and in math mode, for pdfLaTeX as well as for LuaLaTeX. The package depends on ifluatex, ifxetex, and xkeyval.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xfakebold

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xfakebold

How To Uninstall texlive-xfakebold on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xfakebold

texlive-xfakebold Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xfakebold
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xfakebold/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xfakebold
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xfakebold/Changes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xfakebold/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xfakebold/xfakebold-doc.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/xfakebold/xfakebold-doc.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xfakebold
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/xfakebold/xfakebold.sty

References

Summary

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