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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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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The Debian/Ubuntu packages for TeXlive are usually outdated, sometimes up to several years behind CTAN.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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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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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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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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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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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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Which texmf directory to use for non-texlive deb-package
I'd like to provide a collection of packages/classes/fonts in a custom .deb package, i.e. that is not part of texlive.
Which directory should I choose for installing?
texlive tells me to use ...
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How to install the latest version of microtype (v. 2.5) in Linux (Ubuntu)?
How to install the latest version of microtype (v. 2.5) in Linux (Ubuntu) ?
(also, is v. 2.5 still in beta?)
Edit
I'm using this ppa https://launchpad.net/~texlive-backports/+archive/ppa/ which ...
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installing texlive to work with texmaker [closed]
So I have followed the instructions on installing texlive from the thread How to install "vanilla" Texlive on Debian or Ubuntu but that didn't work so I started the thread installing vanilla texlive ...
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installing vanilla texlive [closed]
I followed the instructions in "How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?" but when I do
sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_2012-1_all.deb
it doesn't work. How can I complete the ...
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smartdiagram 0.2 / xparse / Kubuntu
I have a package dependency problem on Kubuntu 12.10. I have installed Texlive2012 from the known ppa.
The brandnew "smartdiagram 0.2" package has a dependency for xparse. This package does not exist ...
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Error installing livetex on Ubuntu 12.04 [closed]
I use Ubuntu 12.04. I had the texlive 2009 and wanted to upgrade to 2012 but it did not go very well. Now I am trying to get back to 2009. I removed texlive from the system (or so I think) and removed ...
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How to use Ubuntu font with TeXLive 2012?
I really like the Ubuntu sans font, I want it be the section and title font as a replacement of Linux-Biolinum?
With Ubuntu 12.04 LTS + Texlive 2012, how to figure this out?
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Problems with TexLive 2012 on Ubuntu after network installation
I totally purged TexLive from my system, and then I installed the latest version of TexLive from the internet installer as described here instead of via the Ubuntu package manager.
Next, I installed ...
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Problem installing subcaption package on texlive [closed]
I'm trying to install the subcaption package on TexLive installed on Ubuntu 11.10. When trying to build subcaption.sty, I found that I needed to first download or build several dependencies:
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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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Install texlive
I am trying to install texlive in order to recover files swept away in the process of installing another latex software package.
The basic problem is that I want to run tlmgr to recover lost ...
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How to install TexLive 2012 in an unofficial distro based on ubuntu 12.04? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How to install “vanilla” TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
I'm want to install an unofficial distro based on ubuntu 12.04, for old PC's
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How can I use Source Sans Pro in Tex-Live 2012?
I use TeX Live 2012 on an updated Ubuntu 12.10 machine with Latexila. I intended using Adobe's open source font Source Sans Pro in my latest paper.
I followed the instruction on the LaTeX Font ...
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How can I install citeref via tlmgr from TexLive 2012?
How can I install citeref via tlmgr from TexLive 2012 in Ubuntu 12.10?
Why was citeref.sty dropped in Texlive 2012?
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Help me for install mdframed on ubuntu 12.04 [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Is there an debian/ubuntu package containing mdframed.sty?
I am french teacher's .I want to install mdframed on ubuntu 12.04.
My english is not terrible. Would you like ...
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Font OT1/ptm/m/n/9=ptmr7t at 9.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found [closed]
My .tex file failed the LaTeX compile with one of this problem, my OS is Ubuntu 12.04, and it seems to have the same problem in Fedora 16. Can someone help me with this?
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Manually install packages from dtx file on ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
My TeXLive doesn't have the standalone package. I read part of the documentation, the PDF file from the ...
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Installing MinionPro fonts on Ubuntu 10.04 running TexLive 2012
I followed the instructions to install MinionPro fonts from this website.
http://carlo-hamalainen.net/blog/2007/12/11/installing-minion-pro-fonts/
However, when I tried to run the tex file at the ...
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“File `realcalc.tex' not found” - after texlive-generic-extra installed?
Disclosure: my knowledge of LaTeX is extremely limited
I am trying to use pdflatex to convert foo.tex to foo.pdf.
When I first tried this I got error messages saying I was missing calc.sty so I ...
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TeX Live — problem with install [Ubuntu, bash]; new packages
I don't know how to install new packages. I've tried to install texLive [I have installed sudo apt-get install texlive-full -- which went correct, but I can not install Tex Live], but after install ...
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How to install additional LaTeX packages in Debian/Ubuntu
I just installed texlive-latex-base package from official Ubuntu repo, now I have to add some modules (ucs and utf8x) for compiling .pdf files with Cyrillic encoding, so, how to install it? I found ...
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texlive 2011 / ubuntu 12.04 and TeX Live Backports PPA [closed]
I've installed Texlive 2011 in Ubuntu 12.04 (64 bits) following this tuto :
http://starlinq.livejournal.com/2542.html
I've changed the PATH and so on in the ~/.profil file.
But after that, I've ...
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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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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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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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What is the difference between install texlive through iso image and through apt-get in Ubuntu?
I'd like install TeX Live, but I'd like know the best option: download the ISO image or install through apt-get command: apt-get texlivefull.
I am using Xubuntu 11.10. Is there a significant ...
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How to install minted in Ubuntu [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
I'm very new to Latex and have understood basic concepts. Now I would like to get syntax highlighting. minted ...
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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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How do I manually install a package to Texmaker - Ubuntu 10.10+ [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How do I install an individual package on a Linux system?
At university we have now been given a bunch of .sty files which fit the university's template.
I got it to ...
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TeX Live with Kile in Ubuntu
I have found How to configure kile to run texlive 2011? and this is my problem.
I have installed Ubuntu's TeXLive with sudo apt-get install texlive and TeXLive 2011 using the net installer from CTAN ...
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Installing biber on Ubuntu 10.04
My tex file has backend=biber in the header. But, as I use tex-live 2009, biber is not installed by default. I downloaded the biber.tar.gz from the biber project page at sourceforg., When I extracted ...
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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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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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Ubuntu Tex Live installation error
Due to the old version of Tex Live available in Ubuntu 11.04, I tried to install Tex-Live 2011 using the instructions given on the TUG website.
However, when I run the install-tl script I get the ...
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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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Install font easily - product integral?
Is there a way to install fonts easily from a tar.gz file? I'm looking to install http://www.math.leidenuniv.nl/~gill/prodint.tgz. The README states:
Copy "prodint.tfm" and "prodint.pfb" ...
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Error: class or style file required by it is not available
I'm new to Latex. I'm running Ubuntu 10.10 64-bit with Lyx 1.6.7. I had created a modified APA template for school. It works on my Windows XP and Mac OSX systems. But in the Ubuntu system I get an ...
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Installing TeX Live from tug.org
I was trying to install TeX Live (on Ubuntu10.04) following the instructions contended in http://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html (c.f. thread Typesetting a document using Arabic script).
I've ...
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How to install new packages on Texmaker on Ubuntu?
How do I install new packages on Texmaker? I use Ubuntu 10.04 LTS.
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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 ...
