My guess is that you had an old texlive-fira from TL 2018 but a new texlive-fira-fonts from TL 2019. Make sure that all is uptodate, meanwhile I've added a Require for texlive-fira (and all other font packages as well): noether werner/Tests> rpm -q -R texlive-fira | grep texlive-fira texlive-fira-fonts >= 2019 to make sure that the correct font version is required, after installing texlive-fira from TL 2018 the %postttrans scriplet(s) should automatically enable all setups to make pdflatex work. If not run as root /usr/share/texmf/texconfig/update force