How To Install texlive-hyphen-base on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-hyphen-base in Fedora 36. texlive-hyphen-base is core hyphenation support files

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-hyphen-base`

Includes Knuth’s original hyphen.tex, zerohyph.tex to disable hyphenation, language.us which starts the autogenerated files language.dat and language.def (and default versions of those), etc.

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

Install texlive-hyphen-base 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-hyphen-base using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hyphen-base

Install texlive-hyphen-base 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-hyphen-base using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-hyphen-base

How To Uninstall texlive-hyphen-base on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hyphen-base

texlive-hyphen-base Package Contents on Fedora 36

/etc/texlive/tex/generic/config/language.dat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.dat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.dat.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.us
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.us.def
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/config/language.us.lua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/dumyhyph.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/hyphen.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/hypht1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyphen/zerohyph.tex

References

texlive-hyphen-base website

Summary

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