How To Install texlive-widetable on Fedora 36

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-widetable in Fedora 36. texlive-widetable is An environment for typesetting tables of specified width

Introduction

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

What is texlive-widetable

The package defines a new environment that, unlike tabularX, typesets a table of specified width by working on the inter- column glue; the tabular cells will all be stretched (or shrunk) according to need. The package will use the e-TeX arithmetic extensions if they are available (they are, in most modern distributions).

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

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-widetable

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-widetable

How To Uninstall texlive-widetable on Fedora 36

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-widetable

texlive-widetable Package Contents on Fedora 36

/usr/share/licenses/texlive-widetable
/usr/share/licenses/texlive-widetable/lppl1.3.txt
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/widetable
/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/widetable/widetable.sty

References

Summary

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