How To Install texlive-fontaxes on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-fontaxes in Fedora 36. texlive-fontaxes is Additional font axes for LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-fontaxes`

The package adds several new font axes on top of LaTeX’s New Font Selection Scheme. In particular, it splits the shape axis into a primary and a secondary shape axis, and it adds three new axes to deal with the different figure versions offered by many professional fonts.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-fontaxes

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-fontaxes

How To Uninstall texlive-fontaxes on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-fontaxes

texlive-fontaxes Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontaxes
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-fontaxes/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontaxes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontaxes/fontaxes.sty

References

texlive-fontaxes website

Summary

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