How To Install texlive-xgreek on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-xgreek in Fedora 36. texlive-xgreek is XeLaTeX package for typesetting Greek language documents (beta release)

Introduction

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

What is texlive-xgreek

This package has been designed so to allow people to typeset Greek language documents using XeLaTeX. And it is released in the hope that people will use it and spot errors, bugs, features so to improve it. Practically, it provides all the capabilities of the greek option of the babel package. The package can be invoked with any of the following options monotonic (for typesetting modern monotonic Greek), polytonic (for typesetting modern polytonic Greek), and ancient (for typesetting ancient texts). The default option is monotonic. The command \setlanguage{} to activate the hyphenation patterns of the language This, however, can be done only if the format file has not been built with the babel mechanism.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-xgreek

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-xgreek

How To Uninstall texlive-xgreek on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-xgreek

texlive-xgreek Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xgreek
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-xgreek/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xgreek
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/xelatex/xgreek/xgreek.sty

References

Summary

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