How To Install texlive-rotfloat on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-rotfloat in Fedora 36. texlive-rotfloat is Rotate floats

Introduction

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

What is texlive-rotfloat

The float package provides commands to define new floats of various styles (plain, boxed, ruled, and userdefined ones); the rotating package provides new environments (sidewaysfigure and sidewaystable) which are rotated by 90 or 270 degrees. But what about new rotated floats, e.g. a rotated ruled one? This package makes this possible; it builds a bridge between the two packages and extends the commands from the float package to define rotated versions of the new floats, too.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-rotfloat on Fedora 36. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-rotfloat.

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-rotfloat

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-rotfloat

How To Uninstall texlive-rotfloat on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-rotfloat

texlive-rotfloat Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-rotfloat
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-rotfloat/lppl1.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/rotfloat
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/rotfloat/rotfloat.sty

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-rotfloat on Fedora 36 using yum and [dnf]((/fedora/36/dnf/).