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I am struggling to find a way to write in Arabic in Latex. Plz. note that my document is going to be in English. I just want to write arabic in some pages.

I am using Ubuntu system. I use TexStudio editor which uses TeX Live 2017/Debian and the editor's compiler is configured to be pdflatex.

I am trying to run the following short script I found overleaf:

\documentclass[11pt,a4paper]{report}
\usepackage{arabtex}
\usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}
\usepackage[LFE,LAE]{fontenc}
\usepackage[arabic]{babel}
\begin{document}
    \chapter{علوم الحاسوب}
    \section{تاريخ}
    \begin{otherlanguage}{arabic}
        سلام 
    \end{otherlanguage}
\end{document}

I am getting this error: 

File `arabtoks.sty' not found. \UsePackage

Although I run the command to install the package in Live Tex:

sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex

Any suggestions to solve the problem?

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    the missing sty is certainly not in texlive-xetex. Try apt-cache search arabtex to find the correct package (disclaimer, I don't have ubuntu and don't know if this really the right command to identify a package).
    – Ulrike Fischer
    Feb 22, 2020 at 23:08
  • Thanks. I needed to run: sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-arabic in addition to sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex. It works now.
    – randomname
    Feb 22, 2020 at 23:11

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I needed to run: sudo apt-get install texlive-lang-arabic in addition to sudo apt-get install texlive-xetex. It works now.

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