How To Install liblatex-table-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblatex-table-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is liblatex-table-perl
liblatex-table-perl is:
LaTeX::Table is a Perl extension for the automatic generation of LaTeX tables
LaTeX makes professional typesetting easy. Unfortunately, this is not entirely true for tables and the standard LaTeX table macros have a rather limited functionality. LaTeX::Table supports many CTAN packages and hides the complexity of using them behind an easy and intuitive API.
This module supports multipage tables via the xtab and the longtable package. For publication quality tables it utilizes the booktabs package. It also supports the tabularx and tabulary packages for nicer fixed-width tables. Furthermore, it supports the colortbl package for colored tables optimized for presentations. The powerful new ctable package is supported and especially recommended when footnotes are needed. LaTeX::Table ships with some predefined, good looking themes.
This module ships with two small utilities. The first, csv2pdf is a CSV to PDF converter. It is only about 100 lines of code short and only meant as an example application, but it is already very powerful. It requires Getopt::Long, Text::CSV, LaTeX::Encode and LaTeX::Driver.
The second utility is ltpretty. It takes a lazy formatted LaTeX table from STDIN (typically piped from Vim or emacs) and outputs a completely formatted table. This makes this module not only useful for automatically generated reports, but also saves a lot of typing work in creating custom tables.
There are three methods to install liblatex-table-perl
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install liblatex-table-perl Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install liblatex-table-perl
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install liblatex-table-perl
Install liblatex-table-perl Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install liblatex-table-perl
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install liblatex-table-perl
Install liblatex-table-perl Using aptitude
If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install liblatex-table-perl
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install liblatex-table-perl
How To Uninstall liblatex-table-perl on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the liblatex-table-perl
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove liblatex-table-perl
Uninstall liblatex-table-perl And Its Dependencies
To uninstall liblatex-table-perl
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove liblatex-table-perl
Remove liblatex-table-perl Configurations and Data
To remove liblatex-table-perl
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge liblatex-table-perl
Remove liblatex-table-perl configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove liblatex-table-perl
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge liblatex-table-perl
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install liblatex-table-perl
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.