How To Install texlive-skull on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-skull in Fedora 36. texlive-skull is A font to draw a skull

Introduction

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

What is `texlive-skull`

The font (defined in Metafont) defines a single character, a black solid skull. A package is supplied to make this character available as a symbol in maths mode.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-skull

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-skull

How To Uninstall texlive-skull on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-skull

texlive-skull Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-skull
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-skull/gpl.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/skull
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/source/public/skull/skull.mf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/skull
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/fonts/tfm/public/skull/skull.tfm
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/skull
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/skull/skull.sty

References

texlive-skull website

Summary

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