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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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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Is there an debian/ubuntu package containing mdframed.sty?
I found several answers on this site recommending the mdframed package. However, I can't find a ubuntu texlive package that includes this. Do I have to install this manually or am I overlooking ...
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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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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In the launchpad website it is mentioned that the version in the repositories is hopelessly outdated (by two years, even in the oncoming october release).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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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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On Ubuntu 10.10 with texlive-full installed, xelatex is rotating my figures 90 degrees counterclockwise
I am using the latest ubuntu with the texlive-full package. When I do a simple \includegraphics like this:
\begin{figure}[h]
\centering
\rotatebox{-90}{\includegraphics[width=8cm]{problem1}}
...
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Kile and texlive 2012
Since I was not happy about the choice of texlive 2009 from Ubuntu repositories, I installed texlive 2012 manually from the website.
Secondly, I like Kile to write, but when I try to install it, it ...
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texdoc can't find gnome-open (ubuntu 12.04, texlive 2009)
I have a full texlive ubuntu (2009) installation and typing something like
texdoc caption
returns the following error message: sh: 1: gnome-open: not found
if I type texdoc -f, I get the message:
...
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Emacs Quick View (C-c C-v) fails after upgrading to Ubuntu 11.04
I upgraded to Ubuntu Linux 11.04 yesterday, and I realize that Quick View (C-c C-v) in Emacs, which opened pdf with okular, does not work anymore. C-c C-v does nothing now; I also try to launch it via ...
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CJK-friendly Ubuntu editor or IDE for XeLaTeX
I've seen this discussion about the best IDEs for LaTeX on Ubuntu: XEmacs/AucTeX is recommended by my colleagues off of this site. However, I'm interested in the specific case of mixed CJK/Roman ...
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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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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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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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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 ...
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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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Command \AtBeginEnvironment already defined
I am pretty new to LaTeX. With windows, Miktex/Texmaker pretty-much takes care of package installation whenever needed, but on Ubuntu I have been downloading needed packages from CTAN and installing ...
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Update Mac binaries on Ubuntu server with tlmgr (TeX Live 2011)
How can I update the Mac binaries of a TeX Live installation on a Ubuntu server?
The setup is the following:
I have a headless Ubuntu 11.10 server running on which I have
installed TeX Live 2011. ...
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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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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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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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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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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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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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compiling pdflatex from the terminal in vim [closed]
A file I can compile in Texmaker won't compile after editing in Vim. I am giving the error hw9problem1xplot can't be found. This is from an includegraphics command. However, the pdf image file is ...
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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 ...
