How to call a package added previously

Question

I'm using the package mcode to show matlab code in my thesis. This package requires the xcolor package so it automatically loads it. My problem is that I have to call the table option in the xcolor package but when I call it after mcode I get an error because it was previously called in mcode. How can I resolve the issue?

Answer 1

Add

\PassOptionsToPackage{table}{xcolor}

before \documentclass{...} and no need of loading xcolor by yourself.

Or add the option table to document class itself:

\documentclass[table]{article}

Answer 2

Just use

 \usepackage[table]{xcolor}

before loading mcode