How To Install texlive-hyphen-german on Fedora 36

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

Introduction

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

What is texlive-hyphen-german

Hyphenation patterns for German in T1/EC and UTF-8 encodings, for traditional and reformed spelling, including Swiss German. The package includes the latest patterns from dehyph-exptl (known to TeX under names ‘german’, ’ngerman’ and ‘swissgerman’), however 8-bit engines still load old versions of patterns for ‘german’ and ’ngerman’ for backward- compatibility reasons. Swiss German patterns are suitable for Swiss Standard German (Hochdeutsch) not the Alemannic dialects spoken in Switzerland (Schwyzerduetsch). There are no known patterns for written Schwyzerduetsch.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-hyphen-german

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-hyphen-german

How To Uninstall texlive-hyphen-german on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-hyphen-german

texlive-hyphen-german Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-de-1901.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-de-1996.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/loadhyph/loadhyph-de-ch-1901.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/ptex/hyph-de-1901.ec.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/ptex/hyph-de-1996.ec.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/ptex/hyph-de-ch-1901.ec.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-de-1901.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-de-1996.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/tex/hyph-de-ch-1901.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-1901.pat.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-1996.pat.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/hyph-utf8/patterns/txt/hyph-de-ch-1901.pat.txt

References

Summary

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