How To Install texlive-academicons on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-academicons on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-academicons
The academicons package provides access in (La)TeX to 112 high quality icons of online academic profiles included in the free “Academicons” font. This package requires either the Xe(La)TeX or Lua(La)TeX engine to load the “Academicons” font from the system, which requires installing the bundled academicons.ttf font file. As new releases come out, it is recommended to install the bundled font version as there may be differences between the package and previous font versions or newest font versions not yet contemplated in the package. The “Academicons” font was designed by James Walsh and released (see http Font License. This package is a redistribution of the free “Academicons” font with specific bindings for (La)TeX. It is inspired and based on the fontawesome" package. The academicons package provides the generic \aiicon command to access icons, which takes as mandatory argument the name of the desired icon. It also provides individual direct commands for each specific icon. The full list of icons and their respective names and direct commands can be found in the manual. For example, \aiicon{googlescholar} yields the same result as \aiGoogleScholar.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-academicons on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-academicons.
Install texlive-academicons 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-academicons using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-academicons
Install texlive-academicons 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-academicons using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-academicons
How To Uninstall texlive-academicons on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-academicons package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-academicons
texlive-academicons Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-academicons
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-academicons/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/academicons
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/truetype/public/academicons/academicons.ttf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/academicons
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/academicons/academicons.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/academicons/tuacademicons.fd
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-academicons on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
