{installing} is for questions regarding the installation of (La)TeX or any editor or other tool related to (La)TeX.
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Installing a handwriting fonts for LaTeX in Ubuntu
I am a LaTeX user and I am using it on Linux Ubuntu. In my document I want to use handwriting font described here. So i tried to include it by using:
\usepackage[T1]{fontenc}
\usepackage{la}
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Temp file fails verification every time I try to update MiKTeX
I have been using TeX for two years now, mostly as a replacement for Word. I'm an academic and I like the typesetting capability, especially when I need to use math, but am not an advanced user. I ...
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TeX Live Installation Stuck at `updmap-sys`
I'm installing a minimal TeX scheme (plain + latex + a few langauge packs, configured through advanced installer) and the installation becomes stuck on updmap-sys reading
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mktexlsr: Done.
running ...
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Installing TeXlive on Ubuntu, revisited
The Debian/Ubuntu packages for TeXlive are usually outdated, sometimes up to several years behind CTAN. Now, I understand that
packaging TeX Live takes a lot of work
and, if you want to follow ...
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I can't get LaTeX to recognize the Venndiagram package even though TeX Live says the package is installed [closed]
I am new to using LaTeX, I have not figured out how to properly install a package yet. I believe this is my issue, if someone could help guide me through the proper way of doing so I would appreciate ...
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media9 + ubuntu 13.04 install?
How do I install media9 in my ubuntu 13.04?
I'm trying to create a beamer presentation that contains a video using LyX.
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Where is TeXLive after i installed it via terminal ?
What i want
install LaTeX for Linux on Mint 14 OS
What i did
download LaTex from http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html
i installed this package: install-tl.zip
successfully installed ...
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install a .sty code [duplicate]
How can I install this code of .sty? I would like to make this calendar, so I need to install it.
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How do I add Hebrew support to TeXLive on Windows (with pdfTeX+babel)?
I just downloaded & installed TeXLive 2012 on my Windows 7 box, including Hebrew language support. I then tried to process the following document:
\documentclass{article}
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Is the current lualibs broken? [closed]
After the latest update to MiKTeX 2.9 it seems that my luatex installation is broken. I tried to track the error and I am not sure if it is a bug or something else strange.
What happens is that the ...
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TexLive 2012 Ubuntu 13.04 - Correct way to set TEXMFHOME
I have found numerous guides on how to do this (heres a couple):
$TEXMFHOME setting
customizing TEXMFHOME
but I have a different directory structure and none of the places present in the answers ...
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MiKTeX 2.9 Package Manager and Updater crash - problem with repositories?
I installed MiKTeX Basic on Windows XP Professional (v. 2002, with Service Pack 3) (32) (at work), but it keeps crashing when I try to look up updates or install packages. It seems to not be able to ...
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Installing amsthm.sty under MiKTeX
On the LaTeX wikibooks I saw that there is an easy way to make theorems: http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/LaTeX/Theorems
The problem is that \usepackage{amsthm} doesn't work - asmthm.sty is not found. ...
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Is is possible to installing only required LaTex tool “pdflatex” in Ubuntu?
I do not know the dependencies b/w the tools provided by the Latex bulky lib.A suggested command to install LaTex tools on Ubuntu is:
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Its full installation requires ...
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How to install vim-latex?
Can someone please help with installing vim with the latex plugin? I've tried searching online for easier instructions, but I can't find anything. I have very little experience with terminal and I ...
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Uninstalling Miktex and installing TexStudio [closed]
I want to uninstall Miktex 2.9 and install TexStudio 2.5.2. (I'm totally a beginner user and TexStudio seems easier to use.)
Should I totally uninstall Miktex (package managers and everything) then ...
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MiKTeX 2.9 portable issue
When I downloaded and updated MiKTeX 2.9 portable and try to change the paper size to lettersize under options, everything works fine. The paper size changes as desired but as soon as check for ...
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Latex on Linux: Path problem after new install of TeX Live
This may well be a duplicate of something that's already been covered here -- in fact it seems close to the problem described at "How does LaTeX find package files?" -- so I hope this is not too ...
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MiKTeX: […] does not seem to be a local package repository
I used MiKTeX 2.9 on windows.
I have downloaded a package I want to install from the internet (manually, not through MiKTeX). The archive (*.lmza) containing the package was saved to a directory on my ...
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TeXLive cannot be updated, older version not available and cannot install pretest version
I freshly installed Ubuntu 13.04 and proceeded to install TexLive 2012 which has been frozen for upcoming release of TeXLive 2013 and hence cannot be updated. I wanted to modify and compile a LaTeX ...
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Can I avoid connecting to MiKTeX update server? [closed]
It seems that each time I try to update/install new packages, the MiKTeX update wizard will internally first connect to http://api.miktex.org/Repository.asmx.
Is it possible to skip this step? It's ...
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LaTeX packages: automatic versus manual installation, and related issues
I often run into problems in LaTeX with packages. I did a reinstall (MiKTeX) and it seemed to fix some issues with knowing where packages coming from or going. In general, I am not sure what should or ...
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Install font on Mac
I have been trying to install a font called Frutiger that I have in a zip file myfonts.zip using this guide on TUG site. By the way, I'm on a Mac with MacTeX. The zip file has this tree structure:
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installing imsart
I am experiencing difficulties with installing imsart package.
I am using Windows 7, 64-bit system. My TeX directory look like this:
C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9
and
C:\Program Files ...
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How can I tell TeX Live Utility where my TeX distribution is?
So, I was in a hurry, and didn't read the copious verbiage on TeX Live as directed by the TeX Live Utility when you have an out-of-date TeX Live install (I had 2010).
So, I'm comfortable with the ...
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How do I install mtpro2?
I have been unsuccessful in getting the mtpro2 package to work.
I am running WinEdt 7 and MiKTeX 2.9 in Windows 7.
I'm about to give up on it, but I really want the \widehat feature to produce ...
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How to install font from the font catalogue in Debian
As it seems many users have a problem with this in Debian and/or Ubuntu. I have not seen a good an straightforward guide in various forums. Finally I found it out, just by reading the documentation. ...
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Add documentation to TL install
I installed the Tex Live 20130407 on my system. To save disk space, I did not install the documentation, because I thought that texdoc can download those files I ask it. However, issuing
texdoc ...
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Cannot install listings through MikTex package installer
When I was trying to install the listings package through package manager, it showed that
The operation could not be completed because the following file failed verification:
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Auto Package download for TeXLive
I use MiKTeX on Windows and quite satisfied with it. Recently I started switching all my tasks toward open-source alternatives, and in the course I would love to use Linux. But the problem is in Linux ...
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Can't install LyX through package installer [closed]
There once was a question that popped up and was closed without an answer...well, I have the same problem, and the same amount of answers as Iszi.
LyX & MiKTeX installation problems on Windows 7
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Problems installing BasicTex on Mac OS [closed]
I was following this tutorial to install BasicTex. Running latex command immediately returns without any warning or error. My environment variables are:
$ echo $PATH
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How to Install Garamondx font properly? Don't know how to create bitmap font for zgmr8r
I try to install the LaTeX package garamondx and compile the doc which comes with the package. For this, I downloaded garamondx.tds.zip from http://www.ctan.org/tex-archive/install/fonts, extracted ...
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How to convert a package file (*.lzma) to . *cls and .*sty? [closed]
How can I convert a *.lzma file to *.cls and *.sty? Because I need it without need downloading .*cls and .*sty files.
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Font shape `T1/fvm/m/sc' undefined [closed]
I am a newbie in latex and I have recently stumbled across the amazing classic thesis template. I have been trying to understand what the following warning means:
LaTeX Font Warning: Font shape ...
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How to install texlive-fonts-recommended (from Debian/Ubuntu) into texlive2012 (from CTAN)?
while compiling my tex file, I am getting lots of this error --
kpathsea: Running mktexpk --mfmode ljfour --bdpi 600 --mag 0+540/600 --dpi 540 zplmr7v
mktexpk: don't know how to create bitmap font ...
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Paths, kpsewhich, can't locate files [closed]
My Linux (Ubuntu 12.04) system seems to have TeX trees in /usr/local/texlive/2011 and /usr/share/texlive/ (I don't know if this is standard or not). Anyway, kpsewhich doesn't seem to be able to find ...
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Problem getting MyriadPro package to work
I just managed to install MinionPro and MyriadPro by following the FontPro installation manual. Everything seems fine, only the pdf output is not in MyriadPro with the following MWE.
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Compiling .dtx file to .sty [duplicate]
I downloaded the fancytooltips package, including the files fancytooltips.dtx and fancytooltips.ins, and then compiling three times with pdflatex fancytooltips.dtx. I see that the user guide ...
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TeX Live Windows: Installation Failure
I've decided to replace my current MiKTeX installation with TeX Live 2012, and (like previous times) it isn't going too well. Instead of giving up however, I figured I'd ask here this time :)
I ...
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MiKTeX Package Manager freezes and crashes when I install new package
I am not new to TeX in general, but very new to TeX on Windows. In the past I always had a Linux system at hand to create my documents in TeX. However, I don't have that opportunity anymore and want ...
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How should one maintain and update a MiKTeX installation?
Every once in a while after updating MiKTeX, the installation gets into an inconsistent state. This might be a problem with the packages (an example is described in this question), but sometimes ...
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`nowidow.sty` not found [closed]
I've been working on this for the last three hours and found no clue. This morning I found the blog Certificates with LaTeX and downloaded the tex file certificate.tex. When I compile this in my emacs ...
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Problem when running Texmaker on .ins file [closed]
I want to install the subcaption package manually, since I can't find it in the MiKTeX package manager. It's my first time to manually carry out an installation, so I looked it up and found that I ...
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The ConTeXt standalone problem [closed]
Today I installed the ConTeXt standalone by following the Windows Installation: ConTeXt Suite with SciTe. After that, I wrote a test file:
\starttext
hello, world!
\stoptext
But failed, the output ...
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What is MikTeX?
I want to learn LaTeX. I was looking for some form of software when I found them at
http://miktex.org/
It seems like it is free. They say easy to download.
However, I don’t usually do stuff like ...
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Cross-platform package manager for packages *not* on CTAN [closed]
I do not want to reinvent the wheel, so perhaps you could help me find a tool that fits my needs.
Background
As far as I know, it takes some time to get a LaTeX package available on CTAN. And some ...
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Directory in the search path of LaTeX System
From the Acrotex installation manual:
"Placement. The ZIP file installs in a folder called acrotex, so place the ZIP file in a directory in the search path of your LATEX system where you want the ...
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How to install or replace fonts in old TeX files?
I got interested in a research paper from 1991, which I cannot get an electronic online version of. The author was kind enough to send me his tex sources, but is himself unable to produce a pdf file ...
