I have found many different Q/A regarding installation of various versions of TeXlive and uninstalling (). To be honest, I might have be a bit lazy.. Will see.  To my best knowledge I am running Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS and I have installed TeXlive 2013, tex --version gives me TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2013/Debian).... I had troubles running the package leadsheets and found some issue thread, that TeXlive 2013 might be missing some features, the exact error is  E: /home/quapka/Development/ZpevnikMladez/tex_songs/template.tex:60 "kernel/command-not-defined"! Control sequence \prop_item:Nn undefined. ...ate_variant:Nn \prop_item:Nn { NV }   Anyway, I decided to install 2015. But I was lazy and just followed  . But did not do the clean up (since this was the first time I was installing TL2015), but I also did not do anything about the previous version (2013). So, after downloading and running sudo ./install-tl I hoped I was done, obviously not. After quick search I've updated PATH, like anywhere I could. I am using zsh, soo, I changed PATH in /etc/environment, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile. Obviously, running pdflatex outputs This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) and not 2015 version.  It seems 2015 is installed correctly, at least /usr/local/texlive/bin/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex outputs This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex) , so hey, it's something. Last note, TL 2013 is not in /usr/local/texlive/bin/2013/.. the only thing I could find is in /usr/share/texlive/ (with release notes for 2013 version. In desperate move (it already took me two days, since I lost connection installing TL2015 yesterday) I ran sudo apt-get remove texlive, something was removed but not what I hoped.  My question here is. How to switch to 2015 version? What should I uninstall (or, I worry, uninstall, remove, remove more, install..).  Disclaimer: I know I should be more careful and etc. But I got used to simply run sudo apt-get install/update/upgrade whenever I need to install/update/upgrade something, but all this work because of one package stopped me from being reasonable. If this is dupe of some sort I am happy to delete it and educate myself elsewhere. Thanks!
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Debian and Ubuntu have very good texlive packaging. But I'd like to use tlmgr to have a more fine-grained control about upgrades and which packages I want to be installed.   So how do I install "vanilla" TeXLive on Debian/Ubuntu?   Also how do I make dpkg aware that I have TeXLive installed?
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is shipped out with TeX Live, but not with MiKTeX, not even with a full installation.  Do you nonetheless know a way for manual installation? MiKTeX needs to know the path of the sty files, and the Asymptote binary file needs to know the path of the asy scripts. Thought of adding the Asymptote folder to the list of registered root directories in MiKTeX, but MiKTeX complains, that this would be “Not a TDS-compliant root directory”.  There is already a similar question: .
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Since I'm using Qt5 I want to uninstall all the qt4 libs. I tried it with the following command  sudo apt-get remove libqt4-*   which attempts to remove all the qt4 libs but in addition it wants to remove texlive and vlc which I don't want to be uninstalled.  Is there a way to keep those two packages? I found apt-mark hold but then they wouldn't be updated, too, so that doesn't suit for me.
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I just installed texlive-latex-base package from official Ubuntu repo, now I have to add some modules (ucs and utf8x) for compiling .pdf files with Cyrillic encoding, so, how to install it? I found tlmgr - the TeX Live manager, but I have no such command, it seems that I could install tlmgr using : "You may end up in a situation where tlmgr itself does not run due to Perl errors, failed updates, or some other reason. If this happens, the simplest way forward is to download and run " Am I right?  Update:  argon@vprime:~/Documents/diplom$ sudo bash update-tlmgr-latest.sh  [sudo] password for argon:  Verifying archive integrity... All good. Uncompressing TeX Live Manager Updater.......................................................................................................................................................................... ./runme.sh: Cannot find TeX Live root using kpsewhich --var-value=SELFAUTOPARENT. ./runme.sh: Please call update-tlmgr-latest.sh --noexec --keep ./runme.sh: and then call the runme.sh script in the unpacked directory ./runme.sh: with the directory root as the first argument, something like: ./runme.sh: sh runme.sh /path/to/your/texlive/installation/2010 argon@vprime:~/Documents/diplom$ dpkg -L tex tex-common          texlive-binaries    texlive-doc-base texlive-base        texlive-common      texlive-latex-base   So, path to which package should i use?
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I often run into problems in LaTeX with packages. I did a reinstall (MiKTeX) and it seemed to fix some issues with knowing where packages coming from or going. In general, I am not sure what should or does happen when using \usepackage command.  Is it standard that these packages are automatically pulled from the internet? Where do they go (by default)? Is there a better place to put them?  If I am troubleshooting, and if we can say packages are usually installed automatically, when, and should I ever, install packages manually? If so, where would I put them?  For instance, I believe the package easylist is installed on my computer. I was able, with some difficulty, to get into the roaming folder, looked around, and really the only package I saw, was several easylist files, such as .sty, and an associated readme file. I did a windows search for easylist, and only found one, with suffix .tpm and in the Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9\tpm folder.  My problem currently, is that I am trying to use the todonotes package. It seems to require the xcolor package. But this "can not be found". It asks to choose a place to get it. I think default was "choose random", but I just switched it to internet, and some random mirror site in country (USA). That didn't work, and I'm afraid I've now fiddled with the default settings for getting packages, which will create problems later.  Here are some other threads I have been fishing through:             In lieu of picture, I have this:    miktex-pdftex.exe: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.  miktex-pdftex.exe: Data: connect failed in tcp_connect() {}======================================================================  ! LaTeX Error: File `xcolor.sty' not found.  Type X to quit or &lt;RETURN&gt; to proceed, or enter new name. (Default extension: sty)  Enter file name:    and from clipboard:    MiKTeX Problem Report Message: No connection could be made because the target machine actively refused it.  Data: connect failed in tcp_connect() Source: Libraries\MiKTeX\PackageManager\PackageManager.cpp Line: 2461 MiKTeX: 2.9 OS: Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium Edition, 64-bit Service Pack 1 (build 7601) Invokers: explorer SystemAdmin: no PowerUser: no Root0: C:\Users\aUserName\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9 Root1: C:\Users\aUserName\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9 Root2: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9 Root3: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9 UserInstall: C:\Users\aUserName\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9 UserConfig: C:\Users\aUserName\AppData\Roaming\MiKTeX\2.9 UserData: C:\Users\aUserName\AppData\Local\MiKTeX\2.9 CommonInstall: C:\Program Files (x86)\MiKTeX 2.9 CommonConfig: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9 CommonData: C:\ProgramData\MiKTeX\2.9    (from "Package Installation" window below)   The required file        tex\latex\xcolor\xcolor.sty  is missing. It is part of the following package:        xcolor  The package will be installed from:  ftp://... [Change...] The package will be installed for...
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I installed TexLive through Software Center of Ubuntu. However it does not contain tlmgr which is quite useful to update the packages.  Is it possible to use tlmgr with default TexLive? If yes, how can I only install tlmgr (without installing TexLive 2011)? I ran install.pl script in the downloadable TexLive 2011 installer folder, but I could not find a way to install only tlmgr.  Thanks.
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As I understand it, a snapshot of the MiKTeX/TeXlive is available on .  How do I install a complete (with all packages) TeX distribution on an offline computer (without Internet) ? Is MiKTeX/TeXlive snapshot available on a DVD (for a price)/free or on some "TeX user groups"?  Is the MiKTeX/TeXlive snapshot available for free for download? If so, where can I find it?
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I'm trying to get siunitx working. For some reason I keep getting this error:  ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. &lt;to be read again&gt;                     - l.3 \begin           {document}^^M   I have tried a minimal document to make sure it is not some kind of compatibility issue. And I get that same error in the most minimal document possible.  I'm using pdfLaTeX to compile, and have tried both from TeXWorks and from bash. I'm using TeXLive, if that matters. I have also tried reinstalling siunitx, l3packages, and l3kernel. There was an issue with l3kernel before this, due to an apparently old version. But all three packages are now up to date. I've also reinstalled expl3 while trying to debug the original issue.  My minimal document is:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{siunitx} \begin{document} \end{document}   The output I get is:  This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015/Debian) (preloaded format=pdflatex) restricted \write18 enabled. entering extended mode (./untitled-2.tex LaTeX2e &lt;2016/02/01&gt; Babel &lt;3.9q&gt; and hyphenation patterns for 81 language(s) loaded. (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/article.cls Document Class: article 2014/09/29 v1.4h Standard LaTeX document class (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/base/size10.clo)) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/siunitx/siunitx.sty (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3.sty (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/expl3-code.tex) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3kernel/l3pdfmode.def)) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3packages/xparse/xparse.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amstext.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/amsmath/amsgen.sty)) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/tools/array.sty) (/home/&lt;name&gt;/texmf/tex/latex/l3packages/l3keys2e/l3keys2e.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/translator.sty (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/graphics/keyval.sty) (/usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/beamer/translator/translator-language- mappings.tex))) ! Missing = inserted for \ifnum. &lt;to be read again&gt;                    - l.3 \begin          {document}^^M ?   Does anyone have any idea what might be going wrong here?
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I've attempted to install utorrent on 14.04 using the Terminal and attempting to install libssl 0.9.8, but with no success. Also, this utorrent version is V3.3 and is located in my Downloads. I've already attempted the post which mine was a dupe of ( )
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I'm looking to treat myself to a totally portable TeX system and was wondering: is it possible to devise an installation scheme that would run on Windows, Linux and MacOS at the "same" time?  I think TeXLive is the best choice here, but I'd much rather avoid having to maintain three separate TeXLive installations. I'd like the three installations to share the package databases for instance.  I'll be using a 32Gb USB stick, in case it matters.  PS: I think I'm onto something here... will post back when I have a working prototype.  Edit: after reading  I managed to format a USB stick with UDF and have it read and written in Linux and Windows (need to perform some tests on Mac yet). This is the first step towards interoperability.  Edit 2: well, as it turns out, the previous note was useless (the partition table breaks under Windows), I've found  and it works like a charm. The only remaining step is writing a couple of scripts to set the environmental variables and we're done ;)
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Compiling the following code with pdflatex:  \documentclass{article} \usepackage{tikz}  \begin{document} \begin{tikzpicture}[remember picture, overlay]      \draw (current page.center) node {         \begin{itemize}             \item test         \end{itemize}     };  \end{tikzpicture} \end{document}   ... throws the compiling error:  ! LaTeX Error: Something's wrong--perhaps a missing \item.   The pdflatex version I use (Debian Wheezy) is the following:  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 warranty.  Redistribution of this software is covered by the terms of both the pdfTeX copyright and the Lesser GNU General Public License. For more information about these matters, see the file named COPYING and the pdfTeX source. Primary author of pdfTeX: Peter Breitenlohner (eTeX)/Han The Thanh (pdfTeX). Compiled with libpng 1.2.49; using libpng 1.2.49 Compiled with zlib 1.2.7; using zlib 1.2.7 Compiled with poppler version 0.18.4   What can I be doing wrong?
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I am new in the LaTex world. I just installed yesterday Texlive 2015 et texstudio (last version) on my windows 10 computer. Everything seems to be working properly except for the template "Article{french}" which refuses to compile any minimal working example. The problem may come from the french option or Texstudio parameters. The "collection lang-french" and "babel-french" are installed. I checked in the TexLive manager. From that point I read all I can to find a solution without any success.  Here is what I wrote:      \documentclass[french]{article}     \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}     \usepackage[utf8]{inputenc}     \usepackage{lmodern}     \usepackage[a4paper]{geometry}     \usepackage{babel}     \begin{document}      test     \end{document}   Here is the log file:   % les options suivantes (conseillées) par défaut : \abbreviations \disallowuchyph \overfullhboxmark \tthyphenation \tabbingaccents \automaticlettrine % désactivez les options de frenchle pour '«' et '»' ! % test eFrench = {\befr} \newcommand{\fbefr}{{\footnotesize E}F{\footnotesize RENCH}} \DeclareRobustCommand{\befr}{\fbefr}   I cannot understand what all this means as I have no knowledge on computer or software at all.  Would someone understand or had any solution to make my texlive usable in french?  Thank you very much !    The posted file ran without error until the recent update replacing frenchle by e-french in texlive. The file now generates  (/usr/local/texlive/2015/texmf-dist/tex/generic/e-french/french.cfg ! Undefined control sequence. l.2 \abbreviations   I'm using PdfLatex
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I just installed Ubuntu 12.10 (amd64), and want to install a recent version of MySQL 5.6.  If possible, I would like to install (not upgrade) it the "Debian Way' (i.e., using apt-get or dpkg).
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So, I'm running linux Mint (but I guess the same applies to Ubuntu) and as is common knowledge, their TeX distribution tends to be slightly outdated. Now I can't have none of that and decide to install it with the install-tl from the TeXlive homepage. Somehow, I cannot install it as a normal user (this I find normal as it is installing in the root directory), so I proceed to install TeXlive   sudo perl ./install-tl   and add the paths to .bashrc. All is well and my TeXlive installation works. Except for the texhash option. Running it as a normal user is no problem, except that I installed TeXlive as root, and so running texhash as normal user doesn't do anything (directory not writable. Skipping...). No problem I think, I'll just do it as root. But somehow texhash isn't installed for root.  Now, texhash is somehow connected to updating the directory tree, but I don't really know what it does. I use it on my ~/texmf/ folder to add my packages to a global path (I think), but when looking at info for this question I see in a comment for  question that this is apparently not needed, though I don't understand what I'm to do now.  So if I'm not adding new packages from CTAN or updating, I really don't need texhash and all is good?   To summarize: I'd like to know:    Why should I need texhash? Can I avoid installing as root on linux Mint/ubuntu ( they say you don't have to be root, that it's even discouraged)? Should I somehow install texhash for root?   I realize this might be a vague question at best, but I didn't find an answer I readily understood, so I'd appreciate any thought on this.
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I want to install a package (specifically xlop). I'm using TeXLive on Ubuntu, and I don't really know my way around LaTeX.  Can apt-get install or something similar be used?
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When I want to list installed packages, I do it usually in one of two ways.  The old fashioned way is using rpm -qa | grep &lt;whatever I look for&gt;, and that's that.  But recently I wanted a more comprehensive display of my packages, and henceforth, I used dnf list --installed &lt;whatever I look for&gt;.  However when looking at the result there are a couple things I don't understand.  Consider this example:  # dnf list --installed zsh                   Last metadata expiration check: 0:13:25 ago on Mon Jul 11 05:48:04 2016. Installed Packages zsh.x86_64            5.2-5.fc24            @@commandline   (spaces in actual printout are wider)  So the resulting entries, are: «package» «version» «repo».  In my example that's:   package: zsh.x86_64 version: 5.2-5.fc24 repo: @@commandline   So far the resulting table is understandable, but I'm confused what the two '@@' mean in front of the repo name.  Also, "commandline" suggests the package was installed from command line (downloading the RPM, and then doing dnf install whatever.rpm in the command line, etc.). However I'm pretty sure I've installed zsh via dnf install zsh.  But that's not all.  I've several packages on my system installed from the repo @System, @fedora (however there's also fedora without the @) and things like @@commandline.  So what does that @ or @@ exactly mean in front of the repo name?  And how come I've got so many prominent packages installed from @@commandline although I'm more than sure I've installed them from the repos?
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I installed a plain Ubuntu 10.10 on my computer and installed some software via apt-get. Last week I managed to break everything and just started from scratch, and I need to reinstall my software. Is there some way to create a list with all the packages that I have installed manually?  So that it would give me a list like texlive, ... and not texlive, texlive-dep1, textlive-dep2, ... and all the standard packages removed?  If I could somehow figure out which programs out of the regular install I have removed, that would be awesome too!    Update 2015-05-23: I now use Ansible as configuration management on my systems. There I specify the packages to install. This serves the goal, installing all the programs on a fresh system, even better. So this question might be the entry into some light configuration management.