How To Install texlive-chess on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-chess in Fedora 36. texlive-chess is Fonts for typesetting chess boards

Introduction

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

What is texlive-chess

The original (and now somewhat dated) TeX chess font package. Potential users should consider skak (for alternative fonts, and notation support), texmate (for alternative notation support), or chessfss (for flexible font choices).

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-chess

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-chess

How To Uninstall texlive-chess on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-chess

texlive-chess Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-chess
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-chess/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/README.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chess10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chess20.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chess30.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chessbase.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chessdiag.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chessf10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/chesspieces.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/chess/empty.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess/chess10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess/chess20.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess/chess30.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess/chessf10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/chess/chessfig10.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chess
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/chess/chess.sty

References

Summary

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