How To Install texlive-metre on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-metre in Fedora 36. texlive-metre is Support for the work of classicists

Introduction

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

What is texlive-metre

The package provides classicists with some of the tools that are needed for typesetting scholarly publications dealing with Greek and Latin texts, with special emphasis on Greek verse. As the package’s name suggests, its core is a comprehensive set of commands for generating metrical schemes and for placing prosodical marks on text set in the Latin or the Greek alphabet. The rest of the package provides a miscellany of commands for symbols (most of them not directly related to metre) that are often used in critical editions of classical texts. The package does not require any special font symbols are taken from the Computer Modern fonts (which are included in all TeX distributions) and the package’s commands are based on TeX primitives.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-metre

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-metre

How To Uninstall texlive-metre on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-metre

texlive-metre Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metre
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-metre/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/metre
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/metre/metre.sty

References

Summary

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