How To Install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36.
What is texlive-colortab
The package lets you shade or colour the cells in the alignment environments such as \halign and LaTeX’s tabular and array environments. The colortbl package is to be preferred today with LaTeX (it assures compatibility with the longtable package, which is no longer true with colortab); another modern option is the table-colouring option of the xcolor. However, colortab remains an adequate solution for use with Plain TeX.
We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-colortab.
Install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36 Using dnf
Update yum database with dnf using the following command.
sudo dnf makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-colortab using dnf by running the following command:
sudo dnf -y install texlive-colortab
Install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36 Using yum
Update yum database with yum using the following command.
sudo yum makecache --refresh
After updating yum database, We can install texlive-colortab using yum by running the following command:
sudo yum -y install texlive-colortab
How To Uninstall texlive-colortab on Fedora 36
To uninstall only the texlive-colortab package we can use the following command:
sudo dnf remove texlive-colortab
texlive-colortab Package Contents on Fedora 36
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-colortab
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-colortab/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/colortab
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/colortab/colortab.sty
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/generic/colortab/colortab.tex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-colortab on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).
