How To Install texlive-dehyph on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-dehyph in Fedora 36. texlive-dehyph is German hyphenation patterns for traditional orthography

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/).