How To Install texlive-phaistos on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-phaistos in Fedora 36. texlive-phaistos is Disk of Phaistos font

Introduction

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

What is texlive-phaistos

A font that contains all the symbols of the famous Disc of Phaistos, together with a LaTeX package. The disc was ‘printed’ by stamping the wet clay with some sort of punches, probably around 1700 BCE. The font is available in Adobe Type 1 and OpenType formats (the latter using the Unicode positions for the symbols). There are those who believe that this Cretan script was used to ‘write’ Greek (it is known, for example, that the rather later Cretan Linear B script was used to write Greek), but arguments for other languages have been presented.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-phaistos

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-phaistos

How To Uninstall texlive-phaistos on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-phaistos

texlive-phaistos Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/appdata/phaistos.metainfo.xml
/usr/share/fonts/phaistos
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-phaistos
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-phaistos/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/afm/public/phaistos/phaistos.afm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/phaistos/phaistos.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/opentype/public/phaistos/Phaistos.otf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/phaistos/phaistos.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/phaistos/phaistos.pfb
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/phaistos
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/phaistos/phaistos.sty

References

Summary

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