Questions tagged [installing]
{installing} is for questions regarding the installation of (La)TeX or any editor or other tool related to (La)TeX.
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Mactex mirror broken
just today I got my very first macbook (macbook air M2 base model) with Ventura 13.3. I'm a mathematician so I really need Latex asap on my computers. I was going to download mactex and then texstudio,...
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TeX Live 2023 Unknown Publisher
I downloaded the ISO of TeX Live 2023. When opening the file, the following warning comes out:
I’m working on Windows 11. Should I proceed anyway regardless of the warning?
Thank you!
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using latex package from github
Im new to latex, and i want to use a certain pacakage that I found on github:
https://github.com/liantze/AltaCV
for writing my resume.
I don't understand how should i install? where do i put the ...
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Problems with Lyx and bigints
I found online that a good package to write big integrals is bigints. Despite installing it, using TexLive Shell, Lyx doesn't show any changes in the commands (but if I press "latex info" it ...
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Want to install the soul.sty file in Texlive 2022
I tried using tlmgr but it does not work. Maybe because (for some reason I do not know) it is the 2021 version of tlmgr (at least that is what the GUI says). I have already downloaded soul.sty from ...
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Have installed texlive but no tlmgr follows
For example, when I enter
$ tlmgr update --self
$
into the terminal, I get no message back, no error, nothing, just a new line; it looks like tlmgr does not install in my OS at all. However, I have ...
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How and where to install a .cls in a minimal TexLive distribution (MacOsX)?
I have a minimum LaTeX live installation which I don't remember how it got installed. I think it was a dependency of some other program and it got automatically installed.
Nevertheless, the content of ...
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TeXLive 2022 installation using CTAN texlive2022-20220321.iso; tlmgr says it is 2021 version and refuses to cooperate! [duplicate]
EDITED:
A previous question to this forum by user 'mab' (texlive & tlmgr: cannot load tlmgr etc)---and particularly the answers -- do not provide any information re: how the O/S and the TeXLive ...
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texstudio-4.5.1-win-qt6.exe fails
I have TeXstudio 4.4.1 (git 4.4.1)
Using Qt Version 6.4.1, compiled with Qt 6.4.1 R
running on Windows 10.
It works fine; I use it a lot.
Last week I got the 4.5.1 upgrade message so I downloaded ...
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MikTex Net Installer Installation Failure
I get the following error, no matter which internet connection I use:
"The operation could not be completed for the following reason:
A connection to api2.miktex.org could not be established.
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Error installing texlive: fail to install media9
Tex live has been installing on my PC for a full 3h now and after all that time I got the following error message:
*** PLEASE READ THIS WARNING ***********************************
The following (...
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What do I do if Texlive installation does not complete? Do I have to delete the installed files and start from scratch?
I have a slow (sat.) connection. The installation ran for over half an hour and then stopped around item 234: TLUtils::install_packages: Failed to install babel-azerbaijani
babel-azerbaijani will be ...
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How to find missing externals for a new package
I am currently trying to install packages glossaries and glossaries-extra. Everything is fine until I try to compile (using pdflatex) a .tex document. Each time the compiler requests that I add a new ...
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Package installation [duplicate]
Please help me install a package. I've tried and tried, but I don't know what the problem is.
I wanted to install the xcolor package, so I downloaded it from CTAN, unzipped it and opened the ins file ...
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Problem with Culmus on Windows
I've been here and followed all the instructions with the only exception that MikTex is installed only for one user and not for every user. At the end of everything Lyx works perfectly but when I ...
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Biber program not found after MiKTeX update
after running a MiKTeX-x86 update today, biber can no longer be called. I have found a number of issues like that from several years ago, but nothing with this specific error... in fact, this error ...
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Obtaining the fonts distributed with texlive without installing texlive
I would like to install all the fonts (from CTAN?) that texlive would install under TEXMF/fonts to an arbitrary directory on an Unix system without running the texlive installer. It would also be ...
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How to complete a TexLive installation in mainland China?
Ubuntu 22.04. I'm living in Guangzhou, China. I do have a VPN so The Firewall is not an insurmountable obstacle.
Per https://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire-netinstall.html, I started the Internet-based ...
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How to uninstall fonts installed with getnonfreefonts?
I'm using a vanilla TeX Live installation, on top of which I have installed some non-free fonts with the getnonfreefonts script. Btw, I was well warned and installed it with getnonfreefonts --sys.
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Install themes and packages [duplicate]
I couldn't find a good explanation(other than this How to install a new beamer theme on linux (texlive and texmaker) on how to save custom themes in a way, that you can use it from everywhere, for ...
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empty examples folder in installation directory
am trying to go through the tutorial for lyx, for which i need access to *.lyx files in the installed examples directory. however, the directory is empty for me. using a mac running on big sur 11.3.1 ...
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How to add texlive to texstudio path on windows 11?
I downloaded both Texlive and TexStudio but on compiling a document TexStuio says that there is no path to TexLive. How do I add TexLive to TexStudio?
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Is there any faster way to install TeXlive on Windows
I recently tried to introduce some fellow students to Latex. I myself used it on linux (ubuntu), and texlive installation trough apt takes about ~2 minutes. As it turns out installation of TeXlive ...
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Reproducible LaTeX Environment
I have a school of a few hundreds of computers running Microsoft Windows (without taking into account the fact that many come with their own personal device also running Windows).
How can i deploy on ...
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Installing TeX Live from source breaks manpages
When I install the latest TeX Live in Linux Mint 21 64-bit, and add the binaries to my $PATH, my manpages break, but when I rm them using the following commands:
rm -rf /usr/local/texlive/2022
rm -rf ~...
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Cannot install texlive 2022 - falls back to 2019
I used to have texlive 2019 installed on my system but I uninstalled it following these instructions in order to upgrade to texlive 2022. For some reason, every time I try to install texlive using ...
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tlmgr install package with dependencies
I am installing the hyperref package with the command
tlmgr --usermode install hyperref
The package has dependencies to a lot more packages:
depend stringenc
depend hycolor
depend bitset
depend ...
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Problems after installing TexLive in a non-standard location (and how to uninstall it)
Background
My main goal is to compile my thesis in latex under POP-OS 22.04. (I used to use Miktex on Windows or Ubuntu).
Now I have installed TexLive in a non-standard location (passing --texdir=/...
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Tex Live installation fails on Windows 10 if username contains non-ascii character
I tried installing Tex Live on a typical Windows 10 system. 64-bit Intel with more than 100GB to spare. Less than a minute into the installation, the installer ended. Surprised that it ended so early ...
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How to uninstall Tex-Live, installed on Linux with the Perl script?
I installed TeX-Live on Debian 11 using instruction with a perl script. However, turns out that I don't need it for now, and since it took around 10 GB of my disk, I decided to uninstall it. However I ...
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A .tex file that run on my HP laptop with Windows 10, but it does not run on my institute's Dell desktop with Windows 11
I have a .tex file that run on LaTex studio on my HP laptop (in which Windows 10 is installed); but it does not run on LaTex studio on my Dell desktop (in which Windows 11 is installed) and it shows ...
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I can't get Asymptote to work under Windows 10
I have been using MetaPost for more than twenty years. Recently I came across Asymptote which seems to be a glorious rationalisation and generalisation of the wonderful tool that is MetaPost. I really ...
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XeLaTeX prompting dvipdfmx:fatal error via Texmaker
I have recently set up my MiKTeX and Texmaker installation anew and have not been able to get any successful XeLaTeX compilation (via Texmaker) since then. This holds for the most basic examples. This ...
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How to install a specific version of TexLive on Debian/Ubuntu systems via apt-get?
I'm using the following command to install texlive-full on my PopOS! 22.04 LTS:
sudo apt-get instal texlive-full
It installs the following version:
TeX 3.141592653 (TeX Live 2022/dev/Debian)
kpathsea ...
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refcheck package individual installation
On windows subsystem for linux (WSL) a document containing usepackage{refcheck} does not compile and produces with error: file.tex|| File refcheck.sty not found.
This suggestion here seems to be to ...
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Installing Texlive
Have downloaded TeX Live and stored in ~/Opstk/src/texlive/tl-20221001 with the directory being tl-20221001. How can I install to a local directory ~/Opstk/bld/texlive/2022 with perl install-tl?
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MiKTeX 2.90 installation fails but unclear why
I am trying to install MiKTeX 2.9 on a Windows 10 PC. I had a previous installation on this machine, which I believe I deleted in its entirety.
The first couple of times I got error messages. One ...
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How can I include quiver's diagrams in my latex editor?
I found on this page a way to make commutative diagrams, but I'm having trouble including them in my latex editor. On the site they tell me that I must include the quiver package. But I don't know ...
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TeX compiler with written privacy policy
I have a weird question: I am working at a public high school in New Hampshire, and I can't have any software installed on my school laptop unless the tech office determines that it does not violate ...
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Error with: "brew install --cask mactex"
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brew install --cask mactex
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You must restart your terminal window for the installation of MacTex CLI tools to take effect.
Alternatively, Bash and Zsh users can run the command:
eval &...
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Texstudio is not open and working
I am trying to use texStudio on windows 8, I have download texstudio-4.3.0-win-qt6.exe and install that. But when I open that then I found the error as "the procedure entry point crerated ...
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Latex package not found
I am trying to make a document. Although it's working. But when i am hovering my cursor on any package it's showing the below mentioned error. (See in the figure).
How can i verify is that package ...
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I installed TeXlive through APT but I need a TeX package that I can't install individually; how do I install specific TeX packages outside APT? tlmgr?
I'm on Linux Mint 21, Ubuntu based. I installed TeXlive from apt from official repos.
I need Fira Sans, but Texlive-fonts-extra is 1.5 gigabytes. I don't want to install all the fonts. How do I ...
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Fresh TexLive 2022 install: biblatex "Patching \MakeUppercase failed" error
I have just made a fresh install of TexLive 2022 following the quickinstall guide (https://tug.org/texlive/quickinstall.html) including adding the paths to their corresponding variables. I am not ...
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Configuring TinyTex to work with LyX
I decided to migrate my texlive-full installation to something more lightweight,such as TinyTex. I usually like to write documents in LyX.
I ran sudo apt remove texlive-full and successfully ...
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Updating from Asymptote 2.61 to (current) 2.81
I have MacOSX Catalina (10.15.7). I'm currently using MacTeX-2022. Just today, I updated TeXShop to 4.78, the latest version.
I checked (via the terminal) my version of the package Asymptote; it is 2....
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stix2.sty not found? Stix2 mathbb problem
I have recently asked a question about changing fonts in my LaTeX document (HERE) but when going to compile, it gave me errors.
Provided that I installed mathalpha, which I did not have, I have ...
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TeX Live doesn't install pdflatex and texworks
After system crash I was trying to reinstall TeXLive on Windows 8.1 at home and at the same time on another computer at work with Windows 10. I was following the instructions from tug.org/texlive and ...
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how to install ucas package in macOS
today when I compile the beamer project, shows error:
File `ucas.sty' not found. ^^M
then I tried to install the ucas package like this in macOS 12.4, show error:
➜ ~ sudo tlmgr install ucas
tlmgr: ...
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After installing TexLive from https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html on Windows 10 Pro, TexWorks is not working
The description at https://tug.org/texlive/windows.html claims
Adds a TeX Live submenu of Windows’ Start menu. Entries include a GUI for TeX Live Manager and the TeXworks editor
which doesn't seem ...
