Questions tagged [texlive]
AN easy way to get up and running with the TeX document production system. It provides a comprehensive TeX system with binaries for most flavors of Unix, including GNU/Linux, and also Windows. Questions about how to use, install these binaries in Ubuntu.
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I'm getting the message: "The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' enabled" when updating Ubuntu 22.04
I use the package texlive-full, which installs imagemagick and other related packages. When I check for updates, I get this message:
The following security updates require Ubuntu Pro with 'esm-apps' ...
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How to properly install and use texlive with package manager
I would like to know how to properly install, and use texlive along with the package manager tlmgr in Ubuntu. Here is what I did to install texlive:
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base texlive-...
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finding the TeX Live version
Using the terminal in Debian/Ubuntu, how does find the version of the system's TeX Live distribution? I don't have tlmgr so I would need to need to do this either through apt-get, aptitude, or some ...
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missing ".sty" package
I have installed TexLive on Ubuntu 13.04 following the instructions provided in
http://www.tug.org/texlive/acquire.html
but I always get some missing .sty error (for instance siunitx.sty). I ...
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How to install LaTeX packages for Tex Live?
Apparently I am using Tex Live as my LaTeX distribution:
martin@martin-XPS-8300:~$ pdflatex -v
pdfTeX 3.1415926-2.4-1.40.13 (TeX Live 2012/Debian) kpathsea version
6.1.0 Copyright 2012 Peter ...
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Install texlive 2017 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I tried to install texlive 2017 over 2015, but I got some error. It says
trying to overwrite '/usr/share/doc/texlive-doc/latex/mweights/README',
which is also in package texlive-latex-extra-doc ...
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Upgrade from Tex Live from 2013 to 2014 on Ubuntu 14.04
According to the TeX Live website TeX Live 2014 was released one week ago (14 June 2014). How do I upgrade from TeX Live 2013 to TeX Live 2014 on Ubuntu 14.04 ?
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Upgrading Tex Live from 2015 to 2016 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
Recently I upgraded Ubuntu from 14.04 LTS to 16.04 LTS. Now I want to upgrade Tex Live from 2015 to 2016. I had a mess when I upgraded Tex Live from 2013 to 2015. I would highly appreciate if someone ...
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textlive-bibtex-extra and biber conflict
This is a fresh install of Kubuntu 16.04 with all the latest updates applied.
I installed all of texlive: apt install texlive\* and then tried to install biber: apt install biber which wants to ...
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Where is pdfjoin (Ubuntu 18.04 and later)?
I am used to using "pdfjoin", a small utility in older Debian-based distributions (8 and older). When I moved to Ubuntu 18.04, I realized that command is no longer available. Where did it go?
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Why am I getting missing packages in Tex
I am trying to install texlive 2012. I am running Ubuntu 12.04. I followed the instructions here: How do I install the latest TeX Live 2012?
but I now get error messages such as "ulem.sty not found". ...
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Installing the latest texlive via command line on ubuntu 18.04 LTS virtual machine
Today, I installed texlive by sudo apt-get install texlive-full.
Then I found out that's not the latest version, so I uninstalled it.
I have read some threads related to it, but I am getting more ...
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Finding packages for TexLive
I installed TexStudio with this command:
sudo apt-get install texstudio
Now I need to install some packages like amsmath and amsfonts.
I typed in:
sudo apt-get install texlive-<\t>
but I ...
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tlmgr: Local TeX Live (2019) is older than remote repository (2020)
I already tried what is suggested in the answer to the question:
"I got an error when trying to install a latex package trough tlmgr on ubuntu 20.04, verify_checksum: -5 ".
When I type this ...
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Problem with installing texlive 2017 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS
I tried to update from texlive 2015 to 2017.
I ran the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/texlive-2017
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
After running ...
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I got an error when trying to install a latex package trough tlmgr on ubuntu 20.04, verify_checksum: -5
I installed texlive on ubuntu 20.04 with:
sudo apt -y install texlive-latex-extra texlive-extra-utils texlive-font-utils
when trying to install a latex package (any) i got:
/usr/bin/tlmgr: unexpected ...
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How to remove texlive 2009 on ubuntu 12.04
I installed texlive 2009 in my system by accident, and I have use every way I know to remove it. Did not work...
sudo apt-get remove texlive
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree ...
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Ubuntu 18, unable to install xelatex
I'm trying to install xelatex using
sudo apt install texlive-xetex
but I'm getting these errors.
Err:1 http://in.archive.ubuntu.com/ubuntu bionic/main amd64 texlive-latex-base all 2017.20180305-1 ...
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tlmgr TexLive 2013 in Ubuntu 14.4
I am new so I hope that I'm asking in the right way.
I have the following problem:
On my Ubuntu 14.4 machine I installed texlive from the official repositories. This is the list of all installed ...
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Problem configuring texlive-base
I've had some problems with apt-get updates since upgrading to 14.04. It always ends up reporting errors configuring some packages. Here's the logs that appear relevant:
$ sudo dpkg --configure ...
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Install latest version of tex
I am trying to install texlive-full from the terminal. I issued two commands.
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
sudo apt-get update
I also tried -
sudo apt-get upgrade texlive-full
Despite of all ...
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Installing TexLive 2016 on Ubuntu 16.04 LTS [duplicate]
What is the reason that by using sudo apt install texlive-full I only get TexLive version.2015, even though the newer versions such as 2016 and 2017 are out?
I am actually trying to install Texlive ...
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How to use Tex Live Manager 2018 as administrator?
I recently installed Texlive 2018 on Ubuntu 18.04 following these instructions. and opted for basic installation.
Now I am trying to install some packages using tlmgr but it is showing that I have ...
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TeX Live 2022 PPA on Ubuntu 22.04
Currently only 2021 version of TeX Live is available in Ubuntu 22.04 repositories. (Kinetic already has 2022 version however.) Is there a ppa with 2022 version of TeX Live that one could use without ...
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a missing font causes RAM overflow, huge syslog file, then crash ubuntu [closed]
I have some PDFs open in Document Viewer (3.28.4), academic papers downloaded from arXiv recently. Then I notice my memory usage rising gradually, eventually overwhelmed all the available RAM, which I ...
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dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste was killed by signal (Broken pipe) after installing Ubuntu 15.10 [closed]
After upgrading to Ubuntu 15.10, I used
sudo apt-get upgrade
But the I get the following:
Errors were encountered while processing:
/var/cache/apt/archives/texlive-latex-base-doc_2015.20150625-...
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Restore `/usr/bin/latex` on ubuntu [duplicate]
I wanted to uninstall texlive on ubuntu and used apt remove texlive but some program still found /usr/bin/latex so I removed that by hand (rm). When I reinstalled texlive with apt install texlive the /...
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installation problem of texlive in Xubuntu 16.04.1
While installing texlive in Xubuntu 16.04.1, it does not install properly. When I upgrade the system it shows me the following error.
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree
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PFB fonts are broken in certain applications and missing in others (Kubuntu 20.04)
I am running Kubuntu 20.04. I have a problem where certain fonts (Courier and Century Schoolbook L) are broken in applications like Inkscape (where they are invisible) or font-manager where they show ...
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Installing Latex Packages in TexLive/TexStudio
I am using TexLive and TexStudio, and am trying to install the bbm and physics latex packages. I have followed the instructions from this page: https://scholar.princeton.edu/scuellar/blog/2014/02/...
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Broken dependencies with texlive
I had a working version of texlive on 16.04 but after updating from 16.04 to 16.10 and then to 17.04 (and maybe other things?) it's now broken. I've purged all of my texlive packages with apt-get : ...
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How to resume install-tl installation for tex live after interrupted download?
After having version issues with default installed sudo apt-get install texlive, which was a 2013 version of Tex Live that comes with Ubuntu 14.04 LTS, I had to completely remove and get a newer ...
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Updating packages when network access to standard repositories is blocked [duplicate]
My college just blocked Ubuntu repositories. So is there any way to install texlive package from something like zip?
I need to run this command,
sudo apt-get install texlive texlive-pdf texlive-...
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TeXMaths-Extension for LibreOffice: No permission to use latex? [closed]
In order to use the LibreOffice extension TeXMaths, it's necessary to enter the path to the latex (and dvisvgm or dvipng) programs in the TeXMaths options. (As explained in the installation manual.)
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Biblatex 3.6 on Ubuntu 16.04 with Texlive 2016
I installed Tex Live 2016 on Ubuntu 16.04.1 LTS using
sudo apt-get install texlive-full
Now References are not working. When I use biber in LYX 2.2.2, I get the following error:
Biber error: Error: ...
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texi2dvi with TeX 3.14159265 (TeX Live 2015) in R is not working
In past I was using
texi2dvi("ABC.tex", pdf = TRUE)
in R to produce pdf from tex. However, after using
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get upgrade
Now using
texi2dvi("ABC.tex", pdf = ...
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Latex: installing texlive-publishers
I am trying to install the texlive-publishers latex package through tlmgr. After googling around and fixing some errors I've gotten as far as this one:
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
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Texlive 2014 in Ubuntu14.04
Okay,
So I have 14.04 with texlive installed by default. I'm trying to install texlive packages but whenever I try, for instance running sudo tlmgr install multirow I get the message that the ...
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Install native texlive in parallel to repo version
I'm still running Ubuntu 12.04 and I would like to manually install the most recent texlive. One of the first steps for the manual installation is to get rid of existing installations of texlive. ...
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Problem due to package dependency between `texlive-bibtex-extra` and `biber` in TeXLive 2019 on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS virtual machine
I am a beginner level user of Ubuntu (18.04 LTS virtual machine). I have installed the TeXLive 2019 via command line:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:jonathonf/texlive-2019
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-...
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latex freezes Firefox
I want to use LaTex in Xubuntu 18.04.1. But it is not possible, because after the very first installation command
$ sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra
Firefox does not run properly anymore. It ...
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Failed to install texlive-full on Ubuntu 18.10 + WSL
I want to install texlive-full using Ubuntu 18.04 on top of Windows 10 RS3 using the WSL. This is a clean system without any additional repository. The installation failed as follows:
$ sudo apt ...
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Tex Live 2016 - Problem with tlmgr
i've installed Tex Live 2016 using install-tl in order to obtain the latest version, however i have a problem with the tlmgr command.
If i start the application with the command
tlmgr -gui
no ...
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cannot locate tex-live latex in ubuntu 16.04
I am new to using ubuntu. I have installed tex-live latex in ubuntu 16.04. But I cannot locate it. I'm interested in using latex beamer which is included in the texlive package. How can I find it and ...
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Use TexLive 2016
Ok, so I needed some features from TexLive 2016.
The latest Ubuntu/Debian package that I can see is for TexLive 2013, so I went to the TexLive website and got my files from there. I ran the installer,...
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Error on update texlive using tlmgr [closed]
I have to update texlive, but this is what I get:
khaled@khaled:~$ tlmgr update --all
(running on Debian, switching to user mode!)
Unknown directive ...containerchecksum ...
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Problem loading LaTeX KOMA-script and fontspec after freshly installing vanilla texlive
I have just installed vanilla TeXlive according to the TUG instructions on my Ubuntu 13.10.
A standard minimal example properly compiles the way it is supposed to do:
\documentclass[ngerman]{article}...
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Removing Texlive From Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (Installed using terminal, apt-get)
I am using TexLive 2015 and I would like to move on to 2016 or even better 2017. I read on internet that uninstalling and doing a fresh install is a better idea than upgrading TexLive, is it true?
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How to install TexLive 2014?
I have installed TexLive2014 under scheme-full using the latest iso file. But terminal still doesn't recognise the 'tex' or 'latex' commands. Do I need to install extra packages outside of the iso ...
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Errors encountered when installing 'apt install texlive-full' on Ubuntu 20.04 command line windows 10 shell
I have installed the Windows 10 Subsystem for Linux 2 Ubuntu 20.04 command line shell.
When I run sudo apt install texlive-full I get the following error:
After this operation, 5609 MB of additional ...
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