How To Install texlive-dehyph on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dehyph
on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-dehyph
The package provides older hyphenation patterns for the German language. Please note that by default only pdfLaTeX uses these patterns (mainly for backwards compatibility). The older packages ghyphen and gnhyph are now bundled together with dehyph, and are no longer be updated. Both XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX use the current German hyphenation patterns taken from Hyphenation patterns in UTF-8, and using the Experimental hyphenation patterns for the German language package it is possible to make pdfLaTeX use the new German patterns as well.
We can use yum
or dnf
to install texlive-dehyph
on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-dehyph.
Install texlive-dehyph 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-dehyph
using dnf
by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-dehyph
Install texlive-dehyph 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-dehyph
using yum
by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-dehyph
How To Uninstall texlive-dehyph on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-dehyph
package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-dehyph
texlive-dehyph Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dehyph
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-dehyph/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/dehyph
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/dehyph/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/dehyph/dehyphn.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/dehyph/dehypht.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/dehyph/dehyphtex.tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dehyph
on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).