How To Install texlive-hepnames on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-hepnames in Fedora 36. texlive-hepnames is Pre-defined high energy particle names

Introduction

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

What is texlive-hepnames

Hepnames provides a pair of LaTeX packages, heppennames and hepnicenames, providing a large set of pre-defined high energy physics particle names built with the hepparticles package. The packages are based on pennames.sty by Michel Goosens and Eric van Herwijnen. Heppennames re-implements the particle names in pennames.sty, with some additions and alterations and greater flexibility and robustness due to the hepparticles structures, which were written for this purpose. Hepnicenames provides the main non-resonant particle names from heppennames with more “friendly” names.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hepnames

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-hepnames

How To Uninstall texlive-hepnames on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hepnames

texlive-hepnames Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-hepnames
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-hepnames/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hepnames
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hepnames/hepnames.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hepnames/hepnicenames.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/hepnames/heppennames.sty

References

Summary

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