How To Install texlive-forum on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-forum in Fedora 36. texlive-forum is TeX support for the Forum font

Introduction

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

What is texlive-forum

This package provides LaTeX, pdfLaTeX, XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX support for the Forum font, designed by Denis Masharov. Forum has antique, classic “Roman” proportions. It can be used to set body texts and works well in titles and headlines too. It is truly multilingual, with glyphs for Central and Eastern Europe, Baltics, Cyrillic and Asian Cyrillic communities. There is currently just a regular weight and an artificially emboldened bold.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-forum

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-forum

How To Uninstall texlive-forum on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-forum

texlive-forum Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/fonts/forum
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-forum
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-forum/ofl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/forum/OFL.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/forum/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/forum/forum-samples.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/fonts/forum/forum-samples.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_acf3pt.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_b5i5mx.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_brq6mf.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_e2otk2.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_fx2ufv.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_jsuphk.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_smvvub.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/enc/dvips/forum/frm_ylkcu6.enc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/forum/forum.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/forum/Forum-Regular.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/forum/Frm-Bold.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ly1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ly1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ly1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ot1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ot1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ot1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2a--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2a--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2a.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2b--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2b--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2b.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2c--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2c--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ts1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ts1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ly1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ly1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ly1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ot1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ot1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ot1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t1--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2a--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2a--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2a.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2b--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2b--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2b.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2c--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2c--lcdfj.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2c.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ts1--base.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/forum/Frm-lf-ts1.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/forum/Frm-Bold.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/forum/Frm-BoldLCDFJ.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/forum/Frm.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/forum/FrmLCDFJ.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ly1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ot1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2a.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2b.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-t2c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-Bold-lf-ts1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-ly1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-ot1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-t1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2a.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2b.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-t2c.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/vf/public/forum/Frm-lf-ts1.vf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/LY1Frm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/OT1Frm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/T1Frm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/T2AFrm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/T2BFrm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/T2CFrm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/TS1Frm-LF.fd
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/forum/forum.sty

References

Summary

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