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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.

TeX Live is 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. It includes all the major TeX-related programs, macro packages, and fonts that are free software, including support for many languages around the world.

TeX Live has been developed since 1996 by collaboration between the TeX user groups. TeX Live was originally perpetrated by Sebastian Rahtz.

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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' enabled: imagemagick libopenexr25…
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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-latex-extra texlive-latex-recommended And now I do…
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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 command that invokes the --version flag. Thanks.
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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 struggled a lot to make it run. double checked the PATH,…
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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 Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). There is NO…
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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 2015.20160320-1 dpkg-deb: error: subprocess paste…
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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 guide me how to do up-gradation from Tex Live…
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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 remove texlive-bibtex-extra. Trying to install both…
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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". What did I do wrong?
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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 confused as I am a very beginner level user of…
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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 of this I've only got 2015 version of texlive…
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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 get hundred of proposals, I don't know which one to install…
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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 command: tlmgr --verify-repo=none install beamer I…
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