How To Install texlive-metafont on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-metafont on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-metafont
The program takes a semi-algorithmic specification of a font, and produces a bitmap font (whose properties are defined by a set of parameters of the target device), and a set metrics for use by TeX. The bitmap output may be converted into a format directly usable by a device driver, etc., by the tools provided in the parallel mfware distribution.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-metafont on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-metafont.
Install texlive-metafont 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-metafont using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-metafont
Install texlive-metafont 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-metafont using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-metafont
How To Uninstall texlive-metafont on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-metafont package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-metafont
texlive-metafont Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/inimf
/usr/bin/mf
/usr/bin/mf-nowin
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a
/usr/lib/.build-id/1a/158169624d240c31194571b6fd3a5e1abeaca3
/usr/lib/.build-id/c4/69f48c014d57735e6d95ed7d2bb176cfa98c3d
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metafont
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metafont/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/inimf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mf-nowin.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mf.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/fmtutil.cnf.d/metafont
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/base/mf.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/base/plain.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/config
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/config/cmmf.ini
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/config/mf.ini
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/mflua
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/mflua/mflua.ini
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/mflua/mfluajit.ini
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/mflua/mfluamodes.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/mflua/mfluaplain.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/misc
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/mode2dpi.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/mode2dpixy.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/modename.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metafont/misc/ps2mfbas.mf
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-metafont on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
