Cannot use xgreek in XeLatex with Fedora

Question

I am trying to enable greek hyphenation in a XeLatex document. But when I do I get:

|Package `xgreek' version 2.4 by Apostolos Syropoulos
|! Undefined control sequence.
|\ds@monogreek ->\language \l@monogreek
l.445 \ExecuteOptions{monogreek}
?
|! Emergency stop.
|\ds@monogreek ->\language \l@monogreek
|l.445 \ExecuteOptions{monogreek}

Here is a snippet to reproduce it:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xgreek}
\begin{document}
\end{document}

For what is worth I'm using Fedora and my XeTex version is 3.1415926-2.5-0.9999.3 (TeX Live 2013). If I recall correctly I didn't have issues with other Linux distributions, so this may be a distribution-specific issue ?

Answer 1

The code-snippet is empty. Package 'xgreek' is not necessary to write greek (polytonic or monotonic). Working with Xe(La)Tex the following MWE perhaps will help:

\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{xgreek}
\usepackage{fontspec}
\setromanfont{Minion Pro} %% Select your favourite font
\usepackage{polyglossia}
\setmainlanguage{greek}
\setotherlanguage{english}
\begin{document}

This is english.

Γιατί δεν λειτοργεί;
\end{document}