Install LaTeX on Ubuntu Linux 18.04 or Higher

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The most common LaTeX installation requires installing one of the following packages:

• texlive

• texlive-base

• texlive-latex-extra

• texlive-latex-recommended

• texlive-full

The texlive-base package will provide the minimal/basic LaTeX, however, more often people choose to install texlive or texlive-latex-extra to get started with LaTeX. texlive-full install will provide the basic LaTeX and lots of other more associated packages.

To install either of the package, use the command:

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1. sudo apt install package name

Please, note that, to run LaTeX on Ubuntu Linux you need to install Kile or TeXStudio.

This installation was tested on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

The Tex Live (a free distribution of the TeX typesetting system that includes many TeX-related programs, fonts and macros packages, including LaTeX) includes packages that are more specialized based on task, such as:

• texlive-science

• texlive-publishers

• texlive-pstricks

• texlive-pictures

You can compile LaTeX sources by using pdflatex program to produce pdf documents:

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1. pdflatex latex_file.tex

and then view the generated pdf with evince:

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1. evince latex_file.pdf