How To Install texlive-tabu on AlmaLinux 8

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tabu in AlmaLinux 8. texlive-tabu is Flexible LaTeX tabulars

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-tabu on AlmaLinux 8.

What is texlive-tabu

The package provides an environment, tabu, which will make any sort of tabular (that doesn’t need to split across pages), and an environment longtabu which provides the facilities of tabu in a modified longtable environment. (Note that this latter offers an enhancement of ltxtable.) The package requires the array package, and needs e-TeX to run (since array.sty is present in every conforming distribution of LaTeX, and since every publicly available LaTeX format is built using e-TeX, the requirements are provided by default on any reasonable system). The package also requires xcolor for coloured rules in tables, and colortbl for coloured cells. The longtabu environment further requires that longtable be loaded. The package itself does not load any of these packages for the user. The tabu environment may be used in place of tabular, tabular* and tabularx environments, as well as the array environment in maths mode. It overloads tabularx’s X-column specification, allowing a width specification, alignment (l, r, c and j) and column type indication (p, m and b). \begin{tabu} to specifies a target width, and \begin{tabu} spread enlarges the environment’s “natural” width.

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

Install texlive-tabu on AlmaLinux 8 Using dnf

Update yum database with dnf using the following command.

sudo dnf makecache --refresh

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

sudo dnf -y install texlive-tabu

Install texlive-tabu on AlmaLinux 8 Using yum

Update yum database with yum using the following command.

sudo yum makecache --refresh

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

sudo yum -y install texlive-tabu

How To Uninstall texlive-tabu on AlmaLinux 8

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

sudo dnf remove texlive-tabu

References

Summary

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