How To Install texlive-hyphen-english on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-hyphen-english in Fedora 36. texlive-hyphen-english is English hyphenation patterns

Introduction

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

What is texlive-hyphen-english

Additional hyphenation patterns for American and British English in ASCII encoding. The American English patterns (usenglishmax) greatly extend the standard patterns from Knuth to find many additional hyphenation points. British English hyphenation is completely different from US English, so has its own set of patterns.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hyphen-english

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-hyphen-english

How To Uninstall texlive-hyphen-english on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hyphen-english

texlive-hyphen-english Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-en-gb.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-en-us.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-en-gb.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-en-us.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-en-gb.hyp.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-en-gb.pat.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-en-us.hyp.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-en-us.pat.txt

References

Summary

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