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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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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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How can I install just pdfTeX and pdfLaTeX without additional stuff on a mac?

I am trying to install just pdfLaTeX without the rest of the stuff that comes in packages such as MacTeX. All I want to be able to do is convert LaTeX source files into pdf's. I downloaded the pdfTeX ...
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I've downloaded and redownloaded MacTeX now whenever I try to run anything I'm getting an error that there is some file “pdflatex” missing [closed]

I'm an absolute noob at LaTeX but I want to learn, so I downloaded exactly the files all the blogs and forums tell you to and haven't done a thing to them, but for some reason I can't compile ...
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Font installation working on Win/miktex but not Ubuntu/texlive [closed]

after researching and trying out many tipps here from online ressources (spending two days) I am about to give up - but still hope that maybe you might have some good idea. The task: I want to ...
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Getting pdfLaTeX ro run on new install (Mac OS X Lion) [closed]

New laptop, and attempting to set up TeXShop . I downloaded MacTeX, and attempted to install (using install-tl), but Terminal said I did not have permission. Found instructions to enable root user, ...
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Local font installation problems

Recently I tried to reinstall the MathTimePro II fonts in my local texmf directory. I already have Lucida fonts installed which works fine. So I carefully copied all the relevant files/folders to the ...
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statweave problem [duplicate]

Possible Duplicate: Problem in StatWeave I installed statweave on Windows 7. The installation is like this: MiKTeX 2.9 is installed in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9\ statweave installed in ...
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Redistributing pdfLaTeX as a part of an application

I have a "template" .tex file which I've created manually, and I want to be able to dynamically convert it to PDF in my software. On my computer I use pdflatex for the conversion, but the end user ...
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Easiest way for installing and using pdfLaTeX on Windows

Installing and using pdfLaTeX is straight forward on Linux since you can select an install from the synaptic package manager and then use the command prompt. In Windows it seems a bit more complicated ...
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Manually installed font looks bit-mappy and conflicts with microtype

Following the instructions here I tried to install the Vollkorn font. Now, after some fiddling (see the comments on the above linked blog post) I managed to get the font to work, but there are some ...
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acroTeX and TeXLive 2010

this is a follow-up of the post: How do you say Happy New Year with LaTeX? How do you say Happy New Year with LaTeX? It sounds great to be able to use LaTeX for such greetings but however I have ...