How To Install texlive-elvish on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-elvish in Fedora 36. texlive-elvish is Fonts for typesetting Tolkien Elvish scripts

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-elvish`

The bundle provides fonts for Cirth (cirth.mf, etc.) and for Tengwar (teng10.mf). The Tengwar fonts are supported by macros in teng.tex, or by the (better documented) tengtex package.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-elvish

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-elvish

How To Uninstall texlive-elvish on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-elvish

texlive-elvish Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/cirth.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/teng10.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/tengdev.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/tengmacs.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/tengmain.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/tengsecs.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/elvish/tengteht.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/elvish
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/elvish/cirth.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/elvish/teng10.tfm

References

texlive-elvish website

Summary

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