How To Install texlive-unicode-alphabets on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-unicode-alphabets in Fedora 36. texlive-unicode-alphabets is Macros for using characters from Unicode’s Private Use Area

Introduction

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

What is texlive-unicode-alphabets

While Unicode supports the vast majority of use cases, there are certain specialized niches which require characters and glyphs not (yet) represented in the standard. Thus the Private Use Area (PUA) at code points E000-F8FF, which enables third parties to define arbitrary character sets. This package allows configuring a number of macros for using various PUA character sets in LaTeX (AGL, CYFI, MUFI, SIL, TITUS, UCSUR, UNZ), to enable transcription and display of medieval and other documents.

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

Install texlive-unicode-alphabets 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-unicode-alphabets using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-unicode-alphabets

Install texlive-unicode-alphabets 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-unicode-alphabets using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-unicode-alphabets

How To Uninstall texlive-unicode-alphabets on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-unicode-alphabets

texlive-unicode-alphabets Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/license.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/specimen.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/specimen.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.bib
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.agl.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.cyfi.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.mufi.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.sil.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.titus.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.ucsur.csv
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/unicode-alphabets/unicode-alphabets.unz.csv

References

Summary

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