How To Install texlive-arabicfront on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-arabicfront in Fedora 36. texlive-arabicfront is Frontmatter with arabic page numbers

Introduction

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

What is texlive-arabicfront

This package modifies the definitions of \frontmatter and \mainmatter so that page numbering starts in arabic style from the front matter while preserving the rest of the original definitions. For it to work, \pagenumbering has to be inside these macros–most of classes do that, but there are exceptions like memoir.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-arabicfront

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-arabicfront

How To Uninstall texlive-arabicfront on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-arabicfront

texlive-arabicfront Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/arabicfront
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/arabicfront/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabicfront
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/arabicfront/arabicfront.sty

References

Summary

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