I'm using Ubuntu and I want to download and install LaTeX, what should I choose and where can I find it?
Thanks.
The easiest way in ubuntu is to use the ubuntu package manager (from the desktop) and install the texlive package. As an editor you can choose whatever you want (texmaker, texstudio or any editor like gedit, vim and so on). Alternatively, you can use the terminal to install the packages, using
sudo apt-get install texlive texstudio
Dependencies usually are matched automatically
edit: look for the ubuntu software-center to open the package manager GUI and search for the texlive and other packages.
If you want the latest texlive version, follow these instructions: texlive quick install
texlive-full
", although he probably will not use all the included features.
Jan 26, 2016 at 13:40
apt-cache showpkg texlive
on a recent ubuntu distribution and it gives me only 3 dependencies: texlive-latex-base
, texlive-fonts-recommended
and texlive-latex-recommended
, which in turn don't depend on any localization packages. This is understandable, because perhaps you want to use TeX to typeset material in a veriety of languages, not necessary your own's, and then you have to manually select which do you want to install.
Jan 28, 2016 at 8:52
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
(worked for me YMMV), if you only run the command in the answer (sudo apt-get install texlive texstudio
) you will likely get some missing file errors
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra