How To Install texlive-ptolemaicastronomy on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ptolemaicastronomy in Fedora 36. texlive-ptolemaicastronomy is Diagrams of sphere models for variably strict conditionals (Lewis counterfactuals)

Introduction

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

What is texlive-ptolemaicastronomy

David K. Lewis (Counterfactuals, Blackwell 1973) introduced a sphere semantics for counterfactual conditionals. He jokingly referred to the diagrams depicting such sphere models as Ptolemaic astronomy, hence the name of this package. The macros provided in this package aid in the construction of sphere model diagrams in the style of Lewis. The macros all make use of TikZ.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ptolemaicastronomy

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ptolemaicastronomy

How To Uninstall texlive-ptolemaicastronomy on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ptolemaicastronomy

texlive-ptolemaicastronomy Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ptolemaicastronomy
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ptolemaicastronomy/lppl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ptolemaicastronomy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ptolemaicastronomy/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ptolemaicastronomy/README.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/ptolemaicastronomy/ptolemaicastronomy.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ptolemaicastronomy
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/ptolemaicastronomy/ptolemaicastronomy.sty

References

Summary

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