How To Install texlive-patgen on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-patgen on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-patgen
This is the last version of the program distributed by Knuth; it advertises itself as a pattern generator for “the algorithm used in TeX”, but, of course, the patterns used in modern distributions are Unicode-based.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-patgen on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-patgen.
Install texlive-patgen 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-patgen using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-patgen
Install texlive-patgen 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-patgen using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-patgen
How To Uninstall texlive-patgen on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-patgen package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-patgen
texlive-patgen Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/bin/patgen
/usr/lib/.build-id
/usr/lib/.build-id/33
/usr/lib/.build-id/33/7578845437adbfc1cdb495ffec49935b894787
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-patgen
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-patgen/knuth.txt
/usr/share/man/man1/patgen.1.gz
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-patgen on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).