How To Install texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8

texlive-ctablestack is Catcode table stable support

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-ctablestack

This package provides a method for defining category code table stacks in LuaTeX. It builds on code provided by the 2015/10/01 release of LaTeX2e (also available as ltluatex.sty for plain users). It is required by the luatexbase package (v1.0 onward) which uses ctablestack to provide a back-compatibility form of this concept.

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

Install texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-ctablestack

Install texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

The output should look something like this:

CentOS Linux 8 - AppStream                                       43 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - BaseOS                                          65 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - ContinuousRelease                               43 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Extras                                          23 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - FastTrack                                       40 kB/s | 3.0 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - HighAvailability                                36 kB/s | 3.9 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - Plus                                            24 kB/s | 1.5 kB     00:00    
CentOS Linux 8 - PowerTools                                      50 kB/s | 4.3 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux Modular 8 - x86_64           13 kB/s | 9.2 kB     00:00    
Extra Packages for Enterprise Linux 8 - x86_64                   24 kB/s | 8.5 kB     00:00    
Metadata cache created.

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-ctablestack

How To Uninstall texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-ctablestack

texlive-ctablestack Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ctablestack
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-ctablestack/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/ctablestack
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/ctablestack/README.md
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/luatex/ctablestack/ctablestack.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/ctablestack
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/luatex/ctablestack/ctablestack.sty

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-ctablestack on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.