How To Install texlive-chinese-jfm on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-chinese-jfm in Fedora 36. texlive-chinese-jfm is Luatexja-jfm files for Chinese typesetting

Introduction

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

What is texlive-chinese-jfm

ChineseJFM is a series of luatexja-jfm files for better Chinese typesetting, providing quanjiao, banjiao, and kaiming three styles and other fancy features. It can be used for both horizontal and vertical writing mode in Simplified/Traditional Chinese or Japanese fonts.

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

Install texlive-chinese-jfm 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-chinese-jfm using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-chinese-jfm

Install texlive-chinese-jfm 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-chinese-jfm using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-chinese-jfm

How To Uninstall texlive-chinese-jfm on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-chinese-jfm

texlive-chinese-jfm Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/chinese-jfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/chinese-jfm/LICENSE
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/chinese-jfm/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/chinese-jfm/chinese-jfm.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/chinese-jfm/chinese-jfm.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/chinese-jfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/chinese-jfm/jfm-ja_JP.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/chinese-jfm/jfm-zh_CN.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/chinese-jfm/jfm-zh_TW.lua

References

Summary

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