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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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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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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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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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TeX live 2012 full installation on gentoo linux
What is the "gentoo-way" to install the latest full TeX live collection?
I know the tex live installer script to install the complete collection manually, but I would prefer to "emerge" a gentoo ...
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Error during installation of TeXLive 2012 in Fedora [duplicate]
I am facing problems while trying to install TeXLive 2012 on fedora. I did the following-
Unzipped the package.
Navigated to the location of install-tl.
Typed in ./install-tl
I got the following ...
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How to correct install PSCyr font in Linux?
How to correct install PSCyr font on Linux?
I try to install it in ~/.texmf-var but this doesn't help.
And into local tree: /usr/local/share/texmf - nothing.
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Install custom .cls using TeX Live in local directory
Background
I have a .cls file that I would like pdflatex to use. I have read the following
How to make LaTeX see local texmf tree
Per-project texmf directory
Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX
How ...
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3answers
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Which Linux distributions support recent TeX Live with package manager?
I am currently having massive issues getting TeX Live to run on Ubuntu 12.04, so I am considering running a VM on VirtualBox with another Linux distribution that has better support for the latest TeX ...
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2answers
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Fedora manual installation and dependencies
Following answers on this website (like: How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17? and Manually installed TexLive on Fedora 16 )
I installed texlive manually on fedora and it works flawlessly.
The problem I ...
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How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
I need to install a new TeX/LaTeX/ConTeXt package on my computer. I'm running Ubuntu/Fedora/Slackware/Some-Version-Of Linux. What are the possible ways to do this?
Note: We get a ...
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TeX Installation on USB
I would like to install LaTeX on a Uberstudent (Ubuntu) distro. The problem is that I only have a USB drive and the Uberstudent machine doesn't have internet access due to a lack of a wifi card. I ...
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Problem with TexLive installation on Fedora 17
I just upgraded to Fedora 17 and tried to install TeX Live, as usually, by downloading the install script, install-tl from tug.org. When I run
./install-tl
I get this output:
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1answer
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How to use TeX Live on Fedora 17?
On Fedora 17 I have at least 3 ways to use TeX Live:
Install it from the default repository (TeX Live 2007, very old)
Add a work-in-progress developer repository - is it stable enough? In the past ...
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1answer
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linux latex template installation issue
I have ubuntu 12.04 and I'm trying to install the IEEE template to create a .tex document. I have tried both methods of the following tutorial, but none worked:
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How to setup texliveonfly, on any LaTeX editor?
I'm a novice in the world of LaTeX, and I'm struggling to find a simple tutorial on how to to setup texliveonfly as part of TeX Live 2011 in any LaTeX editor.
Is there anyone out there who's got ...
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How to move TeX Live to another partition (/data)
I'm a LyX user. Can I move all (or most) of the TeX related files/folders to another (Linux) partition (/data) and so reuse that partition for LyX-TeX after OS re-install, as well as share that TeX ...
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About texhash and proper installation of TeXlive
So, I'm running linux Mint (but I guess the same applies to Ubuntu) and as is common knowledge, their TeX distribution tends to be slightly outdated. Now I can't have none of that and decide to ...
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Executing Tex Live by SSH command
I installed Tex Live by apt-get on Ubuntu, and I could access to latex commands both in Terminal and in web scripts; e.g. in PHP by shell_exec('pdflatex -version');
On a similar machine, I installed ...
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2answers
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texlive does not find sty file
I am on Ubuntu 8.04 and just install TeX Live with :
sudo apt-get install texlive-full.
I tried to compile my .tex file with TexMaker.
I get :
xcolor.sty not found
titlesec.sty not found
How ...
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2answers
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Successfully installed texlive-full but can't find it
Why is it that I can't find any icons or shortcuts of my LaTeX installation?
I installed it using this:
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-full.
But when I look at my application, I can't locate ...
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1answer
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I have a problem with installing tlmgr [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
tlmgr is not accessible after installing TeX Live 2011 on a Ubuntu system
My computer runs on Fedora 15 x86-64. I installed TeX Live using my package manager, but ...
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Manually installing packages under Linux Mint 12 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
I've used Kile 2.1 under Ubuntu. To manually install a package, I did the following:
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2answers
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Finding a Ubuntu package for a sty file [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
I've had this problem for a while now on Ubuntu. Whenever I have a missing .sty file (right now, it's ...
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3answers
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How can I manually install a LaTeX package (Debian/Ubuntu Linux)? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
The Debian/Ubuntu archives typically include assemblies of many LaTeX packages for convenience of downloading ...
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1answer
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Installing and using XeTeX
I have tried to install XeTeX on my Debian system, but this does not appear to work. Here are the steps I took:
I loaded TeX Live 2011 with tlmgr -gui.
I loaded a repository.
I selected "not ...
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1answer
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Latex memory usage & CPU
I want to buy a VPS with some sort of Linux on it in order to run apache, LaTeX. I need to choose processor and ram. How much does LaTeX use? What will be an appropriate configuration to run LaTeX ...
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How does LaTeX find package files?
On a fresh install of TeXlive on a Linux box (Linux Mint 11) I get the following error message:
! LaTeX Error: File `scalefnt.sty' not found.
But the file is there:
$ find /usr/ -name ...
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How to install LaTeX on Fedora 15 ?
In order to install a framework I need to install first LaTeX on a fedora 15 machine
LaTeX (optional) This is used for typesetting K definitions. Besides basic
packages, the following ...
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Which LaTeX to install on Linux?
Which LaTeX distribution would you recommend for using on Linux from command line? I am looking for one with most complete coverage of packages.
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Correctly configuring TexWorks to work with TexLive (TUGs version)
I just downloaded TL 2010 but the packages don't seem available to TexWorks. Before I was using the version of TL supplied via Synaptic. But that was not being kept up to date so I had to download ...
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How can I install pgf/tikz by hand in Zenwalk?
I am trying to get latex (tetex) working in a recent installation of Zenwalk. The main problem is that tikZ needs to be installed "by hand" because the Zenwalk package manager netpkg can't do it by ...
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I want to start using LaTeX on Ubuntu. Where do I start?
There are many different kind of options that you can do in order to start using LaTeX on Ubuntu. I would prefer doing that through Eclipse, but if there is a better way of doing it, feel free to ...
