How To Install texlive-hands on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-hands in Fedora 36. texlive-hands is Pointing hand font

Introduction

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

What is texlive-hands

Provides right- and left-pointing hands in both black-on-white and white-on-black realisation. The font is distributed as Metafont source.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hands

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-hands

How To Uninstall texlive-hands on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hands

texlive-hands Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-hands
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-hands/pd.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands/hands.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands/handsdef.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands/mirror.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands/reverse.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/hands/rvmirror.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/hands
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/hands/hands.tfm

References

Summary

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