How To Install texlive-shapes on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-shapes in Fedora 36. texlive-shapes is Draw polygons, reentrant stars, and fractions in circles with Metapost

Introduction

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

What is texlive-shapes

The shapes set of macros allows drawing regular polygons; their corresponding reentrant stars in all their variations; and fractionally filled circles (useful for visually demonstrating the nature of fractions) in Metapost.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-shapes

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-shapes

How To Uninstall texlive-shapes on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-shapes

texlive-shapes Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-shapes
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-shapes/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/shapes
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/metapost/shapes/shapes.mp

References

Summary

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