How To Install texlive-ascii-font on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ascii-font in Fedora 36. texlive-ascii-font is Use the ASCII “font” in LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-ascii-font`

The package provides glyph and font access commands so that LaTeX users can use the ASCII glyphs in their documents. The ASCII font is encoded according to the IBM PC Code Page 437 C0 Graphics. This package replaces any early LaTeX 2.09 package and “font” by R. Ramasubramanian and R.W.D. Nickalls.

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

Install texlive-ascii-font 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-ascii-font using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ascii-font

Install texlive-ascii-font 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-ascii-font using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-ascii-font

How To Uninstall texlive-ascii-font on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ascii-font

texlive-ascii-font Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ascii-font
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ascii-font/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/ascii-font
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/ascii-font/ascii.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/ascii-font
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/ascii-font/ASCII.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/ascii-font
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/ascii-font/ASCII.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ascii-font
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ascii-font/ascii.sty

References

texlive-ascii-font website

Summary

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