How To Install texlive-mathalpha on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mathalpha in Fedora 36. texlive-mathalpha is General package for loading maths alphabets in LaTeX

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mathalpha

Package mathalfa was renamed to mathalpha. For backward compatibility the old name will continue to be recognized in LaTeX documents. The package provides means of loading maths alphabets (such as are normally addressed via macros \mathcal, \mathbb, \mathfrak and \mathscr), offering various features normally missing in existing packages for this job.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mathalpha

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mathalpha

How To Uninstall texlive-mathalpha on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mathalpha

texlive-mathalpha Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathalpha
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mathalpha/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mathalpha
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mathalpha/mathalfa.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/mathalpha/mathalpha.sty

References

Summary

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