How To Install texlive-tabulary on CentOS 8

texlive-tabulary is Tabular with variable width columns balanced

Introduction

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

What is texlive-tabulary

The package defines a tabular*-like environment, tabulary, taking a ’total width’ argument as well as the column specifications. The environment uses column types L, C, R and J for variable width columns (\raggedright’, \centering, \raggedleft, and normally justified). In contrast to tabularx’s X columns, the width of each column is weighted according to the natural width of the widest cell in the column.

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-tabulary

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-tabulary

How To Uninstall texlive-tabulary on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-tabulary

texlive-tabulary Package Contents on CentOS 8

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

References

Summary

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