How To Install texlive-tabu on CentOS 8
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tabu on CentOS 8.
What is texlive-tabu
The package provides an environment, tabu, which will make any sort of tabular (that doesn’t need to split across pages), and an environment longtabu which provides the facilities of tabu in a modified longtable environment. (Note that this latter offers an enhancement of ltxtable.) The package requires the array package, and needs e-TeX to run (since array.sty is present in every conforming distribution of LaTeX, and since every publicly available LaTeX format is built using e-TeX, the requirements are provided by default on any reasonable system). The package also requires xcolor for coloured rules in tables, and colortbl for coloured cells. The longtabu environment further requires that longtable be loaded. The package itself does not load any of these packages for the user. The tabu environment may be used in place of tabular, tabular* and tabularx environments, as well as the array environment in maths mode. It overloads tabularx’s X-column specification, allowing a width specification, alignment (l, r, c and j) and column type indication (p, m and b). \begin{tabu} to
specifies a target width, and \begin{tabu} spread enlarges the environment’s “natural” width.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-tabu on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-tabu.
Install texlive-tabu 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-tabu using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-tabu
Install texlive-tabu 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-tabu using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-tabu
How To Uninstall texlive-tabu on CentOS 8
To uninstall only the texlive-tabu package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-tabu
texlive-tabu Package Contents on CentOS 8
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tabu
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-tabu/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabu
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabu/README
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/doc/latex/tabu/tabu.pdf
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tabu
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tabu/tabu.sty
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tabu on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.