Questions tagged [ubuntu]
Ubuntu is a Linux distribution based on Debian. It includes TeX and Friends in the form of the TeX Live distribution. Note that http://askubuntu.com is specifically dedicated to Ubuntu questions.
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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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tlmgr cannot setup TLPDB
I'm trying to update my installation of texlive 2013 under Ubuntu 13.10.
However, I followed the instruction on this answer, but I get an error
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
cannot ...
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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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Setup SyncTeX with Emacs
I want to setup SyncTeX with Emacs, or, more specifically, with AUCTeX, and Evince in Ubuntu. How can I do that? I would like both forward search (from source to output) and inverse search (from ...
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Texmaker generated pdf file not showing the position of cursor
I am compiling LaTeX files with Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04 system.
When I run pdflatex and then view the pdf file (internal), it does not show me the exact place where I am editing on Texmaker i.e. ...
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What are the benefits of vanilla texlive over texlive provided by Ubuntu repository?
This question presumes that vanilla texlive is superior and thus deserves to be installed despite the troubles over Ubuntu apt-get. What exactly are these benefits?
I'm considering going back to ...
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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The Debian/Ubuntu packages for TeXlive are usually outdated, sometimes up to several years behind CTAN.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 the ...
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How to use arara with TeXworks
I'm trying to use arara with TeXworks in Ubuntu 12.10 (TeX Live 2012). I've been searching all over the web but couldn't get it working.
First: I'm not sure how to correctly implement arara: Should ...
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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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bodegraph on Ubuntu 10.04
I have been trying to get the tex package bodegraph working on my Ubuntu 10.04 machine. First off since Ubuntu ships with Texlive 2009 I had to uninstall the default version and manually install ...
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I can't get minted package to work under Ubuntu (pygments error)
I'm currently using ubuntu13.10, TeXlive and Texmaker editor, and I found out that minted package is the best way to get source code highlighting on LaTeX.
So I installed python-pygments via terminal ...
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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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Problem with small caps in XeLaTeX
I'm not able to make small caps work with any font in XeLaTeX. Here is output illustrating the issue for Charis SIL, Garuda, and Times New Roman, respectively. Pasted below are a MWE and version and ...
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Help using MathTime Pro 2 fonts in Ubuntu Linux with tex-live
I installed the MTPro2 fonts in Ubuntu 12.04 by extracting the MTPro2
ZIP file into a directory called "mathtime" and then doing the
following:
sudo mv mathtime/* /usr/local/share/texmf/
cd /usr/...
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media9 installation in Ubuntu 12.04
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS and Kile for LaTeX document editing. I would like to use the media9 package to embed videos and 3D objects (via .u3d files) in a PDF document. I'm totally new in the LaTeX ...
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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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xelatex: I can't write on file `test.pdf'.
Every so often I'll be working and all of a sudden xelatex won't work, saying "I can't write on file `test.pdf'". But why not? Is it something I did? Did I insult xelatex? Now it won't even compile my ...
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TeXLive won't find files in $HOME/texmf
I just upgraded to Ubuntu 11.10 and was trying to get my custom styles/fonts and the like to work. As on all distributions before, I store them in $HOME/texmf, with a tree structure according to the ...
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How to install a language package in Texmaker on Ubuntu 12.04?
I'm having problems with the babel language package with TeXmaker could someone propose a fix I've typed in \usepackage[french]{babel} and I get the following error:
Package babel Warning: No ...
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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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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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Create a local texmf tree in Ubuntu
I am running Ubuntu 12.04 which came with TeX Live 2009 pre-installed.
I want to create a local texmf tree at the location ~/Dropbox/mylocaltexmf/,
so that I can place my own .sty files in my Dropbox ...
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XeTeX not working on Ubuntu 10.04?
When trying to compile a LaTeX document in Ubuntu 10.04 with xelatex I get the following error message:
This is XeTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.2-0.9995.2 (TeX Live 2009/Debian)
restricted \write18 ...
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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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Non-repository management of TeXLive packages on Ubuntu
I am looking to update my version of beamer to 3.10 (which supports nonstandard slide aspect ratios), however the Ubuntu main repository only has version 3.07. I was not able to locate tlmgr. Is there ...
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A complete Biblatex example - from start to end
I've just joined this site and recently started using LaTeX so please excuse me if I come across as a little naive of anything.
I installed TexMaker in Windows 7 and tried to follow this example: "...
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Installing missing fonts in Texlive on Ubuntu
I switched from Windows 7 to Ubuntu 14.04. The following code was producing this output.
\documentclass[oneside,english,a4paper, 12pt]{book}
\usepackage{a4wide, fullpage, color, fancyhdr, lastpage, ...
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Latex can't find .sty files altough packages are installed -- TexLive, Ubuntu 12.04
I just installed TexLive on a i386 Ubuntu 12.04 LTS machine.
Now when I try to compile a TeX file I get following error message:
! LaTeX Error: File `caption.sty' not found.
kpsewhich caption.sty ...
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(k)ubuntu, TeXLive manually installed, tlmgr not working
(Summary: tmlgr was not working in a typical manual (non-apt) install of TeXLive in Ubuntu.)
In Kubuntu, I used install-tl-unx.tar.gz, and install-tl --gui=text to make a basic install. That is, I ...
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Determine full list of installed LaTeX packages in Ubuntu
Newbie here, just inherited a large (250+ page) doc written in LaTeX after the previous author left the company. Is there an easy way to determine all the LaTeX packages installed on my system? I'm ...
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TeX Live error on Ubuntu 10.04: pdflatex.fmt doesn't match pdftex.pool
I recently installed Ubuntu 10.04 over-top of Ubuntu 9.04, preserving my /home partition, but aside from that partition, it was a fresh install. I installed the texlive package (2009-7) from Ubuntu's ...
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How should I install the fullpage package under Ubuntu?
I am using Ubuntu Software Center. I found the package, click Install and it says that the package is installed. BUT when I tried to compile my .tex file it says
LaTeX Error: File `fullpage.sty' ...
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Fresh install texlive 2012 @ Ubuntu 12.04: tlmgr nowhere to be found
I know this subject has come up quite a few times so far (with different distro's of texlive). See for instance:
Missing tlmgr texlive 2012
tlmgr: TeX Live 2011 is frozen forever
Texlive installation ...
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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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LyX: change PDF viewer
In LyX, how can I set Ubuntu's document viewer (Evince) as the preferred PDF reader for the generated PDF files?
All of a sudden it started using Okular, which I don't like all that much.
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How can I call TexLive in Ubuntu?
Following the instructions in this page https://help.ubuntu.com/community/LaTeX , I installed TexLive, which needs some 1GB of space (I installed the texlive-full package). Yet, after installation, I ...
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File 'utf8x.def' not found error in TeXstudio on Ubuntu 16.04
I'm trying to compile a .tex file (which I know to be working in Windows' TeXstudio), however in Ubuntu installation (with sudo apt-get install texstudio), I get the following error:
File `utf8x.def' ...
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Where does the documentclass command look for class files?
The first line of my latex file is:
\documentclass[english,draft]{ectaart}
latex fails with the following error:
LaTeX Error: File `ectaart.cls' not found.
I copied that file to (on my Ubuntu ...
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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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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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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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Non-repository management of TeXLive packages on Ubuntu
How do I install a package which is supplied by a publisher (like Springer or Elsevier)?
In MikTex (windows), I have to copy it into specified folder and than run some file which install the package. ...
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Jerus10 font metric (TFM) file not found after installing TexLive 2013
I'll start by saying I'm new to ubuntu and texlive.
I just installed texlive2013 and am trying to create a pdf on ubuntu 12.04 TLS.
I'm using both English and Hebrew, but neither seam to work: when ...
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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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Migrating from Ubuntu repository TeX to TeX Live?
I installed TeX Live 2013 from CTAN by following the instructions here: How to install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian or Ubuntu?
And it's all working very nicely. However, what I didn't do ...
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How to get mdframed package working correctly?
On a fresh Ubuntu 12.04 64 bits system, I wanted to add the mdframed package to my texlive distribution.
After searching in Ubuntu standard repositories without success, I went to the CTAN website to ...
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TeXLive 2013 (on Linux/Ubuntu) - tcfmgr & fmtutil not found
When I try to update packages via tlmgr (or run fmtutil-sys --all directly), TeXLIve reports:
/usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/i386-linux/fmtutil: 395: /usr/local/texlive/2013/bin/i386-linux/fmtutil: /usr/...
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codecogs like software/ IDE/ LaTeX environment ?
I have been using the website, codecogs for mathematical equations - and it is wonderful for a noob like me. However, I wish to avail of such support when I am offline, is there similar facility for ...
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User defined Quick Build command (sage) does not work in Texmaker
I use LaTex a lot in Ubuntu 14.04. Recently I came to know about the sagetex package and installed sage-6.8-x86_64-Linux . Suppose the tex file is example.tex , then one has to run the following ...
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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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