How To Install texlive-float on CentOS 8

texlive-float is Improved interface for floating objects

Introduction

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

What is texlive-float

Improves the interface for defining floating objects such as figures and tables. Introduces the boxed float, the ruled float and the plaintop float. You can define your own floats and improve the behaviour of the old ones. The package also provides the H float modifier option of the obsolete here package. You can select this as automatic default with \floatplacement{figure}{H}.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-float

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-float

How To Uninstall texlive-float on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-float

texlive-float Package Contents on CentOS 8

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-float
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-float/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/float
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/float/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/float/float.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/float/float.sty

References

Summary

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