How To Install texlive-typoaid on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-typoaid in Fedora 36. texlive-typoaid is Macros for font diagnostics

Introduction

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

What is texlive-typoaid

This package provides macros for measuring alphabet lengths (i.e. the length occupied by the characters “abcd…xyz”), em- widths and ex-heights, which may help in making typesetting decisions. The package is compatible with pdfLaTeX, LuaLaTeX, and XeLaTeX, and will accept font family switches defined via the fontspec package. The plan is that future versions shall be able to provide even more diagnostic tools, and some LuaTeX- specific special commands, too. The package relies on the following other LaTeX packages siunitx.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-typoaid

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-typoaid

How To Uninstall texlive-typoaid on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-typoaid

texlive-typoaid Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-typoaid
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-typoaid/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/typoaid
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/typoaid/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/typoaid/typoaid.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/typoaid/typoaid.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/typoaid
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/typoaid/typoaid.sty

References

Summary

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