How To Install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8. texlive-sidecap is Typeset captions sideways

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8.

What is texlive-sidecap

Defines environments called SCfigure and SCtable (analogous to figure and table) to typeset captions sideways. Options include outercaption, innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-sidecap.

Install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-sidecap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-sidecap

Install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-sidecap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-sidecap

How To Uninstall texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-sidecap

texlive-sidecap Package Contents on Rocky Linux 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sidecap
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-sidecap/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test-common.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test1.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test2.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test3.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test4.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test5.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sc-test6.tex
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/sidecap/sidecap.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sidecap
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/sidecap/sidecap.sty

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on Rocky Linux 8 using yum and dnf.