How To Install texlive-pigpen on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-pigpen in Fedora 36. texlive-pigpen is A font for the pigpen (or masonic) cipher

Introduction

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

What is texlive-pigpen

The Pigpen cipher package provides the font and the necessary wrappers (style file, etc.) in order to write Pigpen ciphers, a simple substitution cipher. The package provides a font (available both as Metafont source, and as an Adobe Type 1 file), and macros for its use.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-pigpen

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-pigpen

How To Uninstall texlive-pigpen on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-pigpen

texlive-pigpen Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pigpen
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-pigpen/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/pigpen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/map/dvips/pigpen/pigpen.map
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/pigpen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/pigpen/pigpen.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/pigpen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/pigpen/pigpen.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/pigpen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/type1/public/pigpen/pigpen.pfa
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pigpen
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pigpen/pigpen.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/pigpen/pigpen.tex

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Summary

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