How To Install texlive-mfware on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mfware in Fedora 36. texlive-mfware is Supporting tools for use with Metafont

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mfware

A collection of programs (as web source) for processing the output of Metafont.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mfware

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mfware

How To Uninstall texlive-mfware on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mfware

texlive-mfware Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/gftodvi
/usr/bin/gftopk
/usr/bin/gftype
/usr/bin/mft
/usr/bin/pktogf
/usr/bin/pktype
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/11
/usr/lib/.build-id/11/9ffc70c35a8c65a098402aaf6821489d670c9a
/usr/lib/.build-id/5f/994fd0ba670570db28385a13073a7a6048e20b
/usr/lib/.build-id/98
/usr/lib/.build-id/98/3722acc9dab54f8a5d8ade2fe39e155a7fd412
/usr/lib/.build-id/a8/1be6621b1a07f34c83025463b6078f359294fe
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4
/usr/lib/.build-id/b4/137651064b6a16e39c01ae2d4eff6424b03c0c
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6
/usr/lib/.build-id/e6/9eb64e312034f0393b07a4ce1fb29ad720bb22
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-mfware/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/gftodvi.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftopk.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/gftype.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/mft.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktogf.1.gz
/usr/share/man/man1/pktype.1.gz
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/cmbase.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/mplain.mft
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/mft/base/plain.mft

References

Summary

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