How To Install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8. texlive-sidecap is Typeset captions sideways

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8.

What is texlive-sidecap

Defines environments called SCfigure and SCtable (analogous to figure and table) to typeset captions sideways. Options include outercaption, innercaption, leftcaption and rightcaption.

We can use yum or dnf to install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8. In this tutorial we discuss both methods but you only need to choose one of method to install texlive-sidecap.

Install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-sidecap using yum by running the following command:

sudo yum -y install texlive-sidecap

Install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8 Using dnf

If you don’t have dnf installed you can install DNF on CentOS 7 first. Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache

After updating yum database, We can install texlive-sidecap using dnf by running the following command:

sudo dnf -y install texlive-sidecap

How To Uninstall texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-sidecap

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-sidecap on CentOS 8 using yum and dnf.