{installing} is for questions regarding the installation of (La)TeX or any editor or other tool related to (La)TeX.
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How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed. So how do I install ...
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How can I manually install a package on MiKTeX (Windows)
I'm new to LaTeX, investigating using it for some work projects. I'm using MiKTeX on Windows. My employer's locked-down network blocks the application's automatic installation function. I can take ...
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Where do I place my own .sty files, to make them available to all my .tex files?
I know how to define a package - but how do I make it available (to myself) at all times?
Say I have the package file commonstuff.sty, that I want to be able to include in any .tex file I create on ...
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Create a local texmf tree in MiKTeX
In TeX Live there are TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user pre-defined, but in MiKTeX there’s by default no local texmf tree installed, therefore my question:
How do I create a local texmf ...
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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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How to install a current version of TikZ?
TikZ is undergoing lots of development with new features being added, but the versions distributed with standard TeX releases are often a little old. How do I get the latest version? If I want to be ...
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How to have local package override default package
I have an non-root account on a shared server which has an old version of a package available to all users, and I want to use a newer one on my account. I cannot just use $TEXINPUTS, because latex ...
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Difference between administrative and user mode of MiKTeX
For a lot of questions here on TeX.SE and on other fora regarding MiKTeX, it turns out that the underlying problem actually lies in the not understood distinction between administrative and user ...
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How do I add a .sty file to my MacTeX/TeXShop installation?
I've searched online, but I have not found any clear instructions how to permanently add .sty files to my TeXShop installation. I'm using a Mac with OSX (TeXShop is a mac only program).
What is the ...
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Manual font installation
Frequently there are questions about, how to manually install a font, what very often means “Type1 font”. So I thought, we should write a general answer about the several aspects to regard.
Beside ...
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What is the preferable setup for MiKTeX to keep all packages up-to-date easily?
By default, MiKTeX is set up for all users to the folder C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9
However, packages added on-the-fly go to the folder
C:\Users\CurrentUser\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9
(in case of ...
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Purpose of local texmf trees
In Tex Live there are several local texmf trees (TEXMFLOCAL for admin and TEXMFHOME for user, compare comments and answers to What are TeXLive's four different texmf folders?), in MiKTeX I manually ...
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Installing TTF fonts in LaTeX
One of the annoying aspects of LaTeX is the limited number of fonts that come by default, and the pain involved in making new fonts 'LaTeX' ready. I have a collection of truetype fonts that I'd like ...
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Relocate MiKTeX 2.9?
On my Windows 7, 64-bit machine MiKTeX lives in C:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. I'd like to move it to D:\Program Files\MiKTeX 2.9. Is there a mostly painless way to do so, or should I just reinstall?
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Best way to install packages for TeXLive in Ubuntu?
I want to install a package (specifically xlop). I'm using TeXLive on Ubuntu, and I don't really know my way around LaTeX.
Can apt-get install or something similar be used?
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How do I install TeX/LaTeX on Windows 7
I am new to TeX/LaTeX. How do I install TeX on Windows 7? It seems that there are many different implementations, so which one is best for my OS?
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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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How to register my own packages or classes in a separate drive to TeX Live installation?
I create my own documentclasses and packages in some directory of tex\latex. The directory tex\latex itself might be in any other directory in any drive. I can register the packages/classes to Miktex ...
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Setting the path to textlive installation, round 2
It seems like everytime I install textlive distro on one of my computers I have the same problem:
peter@msideb:~$ tlmgr --gui
bash: tlmgr: command not found
The below reflects the current state of ...
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How do I install a .dtx file?
When I run:
tex algorithms.dtx
for example, I get this message.
! Undefined control sequence.
l.34 \documentclass
{ltxdoc}
?
Help?
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How to make the rmligs script available globally on Windows?
Hopefully on-topic as about "(La)TeX related software and tools"
I just learned about the rmligs script. Since it isn't available through MiKTeX (and neither through TeX Live), I downloaded the ...
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How to use Xindy with MiKTeX?
As probably widely is known, the indexing tool Xindy is not included in the TeX distribution MiKTeX. Because MakeIndex does not work well with Unicode, but Xindy does, I therefore have a question:
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Configure TexnicCenter with something else than Adobe Reader X
My Adobe decided it should be version X now, and it misbehaves in so many ways. One way is that it is impossible to get it to open a pdf document from within TexnicCenter (or I missed something...) ...
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How to install MathTime Pro 2 fonts on MikTeX
I have been trying for a long time now to install the MathTime Professional II (mtpro2) fonts on my system. (I am running MikTeX 2.9 under Windows 7, but what likely matters is "recent MikTeX, under ...
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How to remove everything related to TeX Live for fresh install on Ubuntu?
How can I remove everything that is related to TeX Live from my Ubuntu 12.04? I first used the backport packages from ppa:texlive-backports/ppa and later the manual install via install-tl-unx.tar.gz. ...
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What to download, proTeXt or MiKTeX?
What exactly is included in the proTeXt's 1.1GB package and why would you rather download that compared to just downloading the humble 170MB MiKTeX basic install?
Also, why is proTeXt's file size so ...
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Oldstylenums with Latin Modern (MiKTeX 2.9)
I'd like do get the nice oldstyle-numbers in my entire document. (Would there be a reason not to want them anywhere in a literature paper?) I use pdfTeX 1.40.11 via MiKTeX 2.9 and Latin Modern ...
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Why is the MacTeX distribution so large? Is there anything smaller for OS X?
I would like to know how to install LaTeX on Mac 10.6 or higher.
But the MacTeX is some 1.28 GB file! Is there a smaller distribution I could install?
What exactly is TeX Live?
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How do I get started with LaTeX on Windows XP?
My only knowledge of LaTeX is that it is a markup language that lets me concentrate on the structure of my document rather than its appearance. It uses tags similar to HTML.
My problem is that I've ...
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How to upgrade TeXLive 2009 to TeXLive 2010
I have a TeXLive 2009 installation on my Linux machine. And, I'd like to upgrade it to TeXLive 2010. I tried the command sudo tlmgr update --self --all as suggested in How to keep my TeX Live ...
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How to keep my TeX Live installation up to date?
What is the recommended way to keep my TeX Live installation up to date? Is there any package manager (like MikTeX on Windows) that could help me with this?
If it helps I'm running on Mac OS X and my ...
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How do I restore my TeX path?
I have an up-to-date installation of MacTeX (2012) on my machine, but a recent upgrade of my system software seems to have removed TeX from my path. TeX Live Utility recognizes my installation and ...
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Getting TexLive installation to work
In the launchpad website it is mentioned that the version in the repositories is hopelessly outdated (by two years, even in the oncoming october release). I was trying to install TeXLive 2011 (in ...
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Versions of TeXLive under Ubuntu
Since installing Ubuntu, I noticed that it has an old version of TeXLive, namely, TeXLive 2009. To get the latest version, I downloaded and installed TeXLive 2011 from CTAN. As this installs itself ...
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How to use the Luximono font with TeX Live?
I've switched from MiKTeX 2.9 to TeX Live 2011 (pretest version). I've managed to integrate some third party fonts (included neither in MiKTeX nor in TeX Live) in my TEXMFLOCAL tree following the ...
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Update / Install the newest version of LaTeX3
The developing of LaTeX3 goes on. However some feature will be improved or added. The LaTeX3 team can't upload every day a new version to CTAN.
How can I install the newest version LaTeX3?
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Using Asymptote with MiKTeX
Asymptote is shipped out with TeX Live, but not with MiKTeX, not even with a full installation.
Do you nonetheless know a way for manual installation? MiKTeX needs to know the path of the sty files, ...
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Installing fonts for yhmath on MiKTeX 2.9
I'd like to use the yhmath package (pdf documentation), but it requires the installation of new fonts. This is beyond my knowledge level, and I'd really appreciate some help.
I downloaded the CTAN ...
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If I have TeX Live 2011 how to install a previous version of biblatex (1.0)?
I install from the internet TeX Live 2011. I have to use MLA to write all my papers, and I have this problem: biblatex-mla sometimes \autocite[prenote][pg]{key} is not printing the author's name
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Install a beta package from TLContrib on MacTeX 2011 TeX Live
I know this has been a question many times asked/answered.
But I have still difficulty to understand because TeX Live has different tree on Mac and is available also on Linux.
The question is ...
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How to install syntax highlight package minted on Windows 7?
I followed the instruction from this link: http://tug.ctan.org/tex-archive/macros/latex/contrib/minted/
Firstly, I install Python 2.7, then create a folder named Scripts in the directory:
...
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Can I install fonts from CTAN using TeX Live Utility?
I have the latest version of MacTeX installed, and want to add fonts from CTAN (or other packages) that are not part of the MacTeX distribution to my system. When I specify CTAN in TeX Live Utility as ...
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What LaTeX system should I use for an Ubuntu/Win7 dual boot environment?
I have a fresh install of a dual boot system with Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.10. They live in separate partitions of the hard drive, invisible (unmounted...) to eachother, but have a common data ...
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tlmgr error: perl.exe has stopped working
I have been using TeX Live 2010 on my Windows 7 computer for some time now, without problems. Recently I decided to use the TeX Live Manager to check for updates, which were successfully installed. ...
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Using MiKTeX and TeX Live on the same computer?
Is there anything I should be aware of if I want to install MiKTeX and TeX Live on the same computer? Are there any problems, any incompatabilities? Is it even possible? I imagine there could be some ...
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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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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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Adding a CTAN package to a MacPorts-maintained TeX installation
I have installed TeXlive through MacPorts and now discover that I am missing some package. For clarity let's use a trivial example and say I am missing lipsum.sty.
I now have two options:
Option 1
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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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Using Excel2LaTeX in Excel 2010
I just installed Excel2LaTeX in Excel 2010.
I do see it in add-ins. However, I cannot find a way to operate it. That is, there is no change in the ribbon area after the package was installed.
How ...
