How To Install texlive-mkgrkindex on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-mkgrkindex in Fedora 36. texlive-mkgrkindex is Makeindex working with Greek

Introduction

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

What is texlive-mkgrkindex

Makeindex is resolutely stuck with Latin-based alphabets, so will not deal with Greek indexes, unaided. This package provides a Perl script that will transmute the index of a Greek document in such a way that makeindex will sort the entries according to the rules of the Greek alphabet.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-mkgrkindex

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-mkgrkindex

How To Uninstall texlive-mkgrkindex on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-mkgrkindex

texlive-mkgrkindex Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/bin/mkgrkindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/mkgrkindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/mkgrkindex/mkgrkindex.nw
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/support/mkgrkindex/mkgrkindex.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/mkgrkindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/mkgrkindex/lowercase-headers.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/makeindex/mkgrkindex/uppercase-headers.ist
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/mkgrkindex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/scripts/mkgrkindex/mkgrkindex

References

Summary

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