How To Install texlive-float on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-float in Fedora 36. texlive-float is Improved interface for floating objects

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-float on Fedora 36.

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 Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-float.

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-float

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-float

How To Uninstall texlive-float on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-float

texlive-float Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-float
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-float/lppl1.txt
/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 Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).