{linux} is for questions related to TeX on GNU/Linux and other Unix-like systems.
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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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Grammar-checking tool for use with LaTeX?
I am looking for a grammar-checking tool, i.e., something that checks for mistakes such as "two dog" or "a books". It has to work on Linux (Ubuntu). Also, since that I use macros to generate some of ...
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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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Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
Most of the time when presenting a talk people connect their laptop to a video projector. So they effectively have an extra screen at their disposal. Because of that many Software options for ...
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Paths and Linux/Windows slash conventions
I'm working on a collaborative project and I like to organize all the supporting files for my tex documents (rather than just having everything in one flat folder). This involves referencing ...
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Increase TeX capacity, as non-root
I have a LaTeX document that uses many long pgf paths, and thus compiles only if one increases the TeX "capacity" by setting save_size=50000 in texmf.cnf.
Unfortunately I cannot change the ...
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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 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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work on documents on Linux and Windows (umlaut, newline)
We work on a latex document with three persons using emacs on linux, emacs on windows and texniccenter on windows. We encountered problems with umlauts and linebreaks. I would like to know:
We ...
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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 ...
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\includemedia won't play video
the code seems to be correct, with compilation no error appears.
The code is
\documentclass{beamer}
\usetheme{Singapore}
\usepackage{media9}
\usepackage{hyperref}
\begin{frame}\frametitle{Title}
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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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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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Which PDF viewers for Linux support Beamer's second screen options? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Note page showing the next frame
Is there a specialized Pdf viewer for Latex-Beamer presentations on Linux?
I have tried evince and Adobe Reader on Linux, but neither ...
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TeX Live 2011 vs Ubuntu TeX Live
Is it worth the effort to manually install TeX Live 2011 on Ubuntu?
Has so much changed since 2009?
I am a new Ubuntu user coming from windows and have very limited
knowledge of Linux environment. I ...
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Setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and Evince
Did anyone succeed setting up forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince?
In order to establish inverse/forward search between Emacs+AUCTeX and evince, it is necessary to:
install new TeX Live ...
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How can I balance uniformity of style files against modularity?
I'm using Windows/TeXworks/MiKTeX, and I would like to have one style file I can use anywhere in any document in my top-level folder. If I want to add a new command or renew an old one, I'd like that ...
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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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I can't find the format file xelatex.fmt
I am a newbie to TeX.
I want to use XeLaTeX for my CV, but when I try to compile with Texmaker. a get an error saying:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9997.4 (TeX Live 2010)
restricted ...
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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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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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Issues when using inverse/forward search with vim and xdvi (linux)
I am using vim 7.3.35 with the vim-latexsuite on ubuntu. After googling around I managed to setup forward/inverse search with xdvi by adding the following to my .vimrc:
let g:Tex_CompileRule_dvi = ...
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Which DVI viewer on linux?
Today, to my complete disbelief, I realized evince on Gnome 3 is not able to open DVI files. Which readers do you suggest, and why? It would prefer gnome applications of course, but I don't mind ...
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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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How to add unavailable document class for LyX on Linux?
I need the IEEEtran document class, and LyX asked for IEEEtran.cls. I have found it googling, now how do I install it?
I've found a similar questions but that's for LyX on Mac; but I'm on Ubuntu (not ...
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Unable to use python.sty package
When compiling a .tex file that uses python.sty package and contains:
\begin{python}
...
\end{python}
I keep getting an error:
./main.tex:33:I can't find file 'bin/main.py.out' \end{python}
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Linux forgets TeXlive2011 paths upon restart [closed]
I've been using texlive 2011 on Fedora for a few weeks successfully but every time I restart the computer the paths for tlmgr, texdoc and so on are forgotten.
I set the paths as root using the ...
