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Install pdflatex ubuntu

PdfLatex is a tool that converts Latex sources into PDF. This is specifically very important for researchers, as they use it to publish their findings. It could be installed very easily using Linux terminal, though this seems an annoying task on Windows. Installation commands are given below.

  • Install the TexLive base
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base
  • Also install the recommended and extra fonts to avoid running into the error [1], when trying to use pdflatex on latex files with more fonts.
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-recommended
sudo apt-get install texlive-fonts-extra
  • Install the extra packages,
sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Once installed as above, you may be able to create PDF files from latex sources using PdfLatex as below.

pdflatex latex_source_name.tex

Error 1: grep: ptmr7t.log: No such file or directory mktextfm: `mf-nowin -progname=mf \mode:=ljfour; mag:=1; nonstopmode; input ptmr7t' failed to make ptmr7t.tfm. kpathsea: Appending font creation commands to missfont.log.

! Font OT1/ptm/m/n/10=ptmr7t at 10.0pt not loadable: Metric (TFM) file not found.

Ref: http://kkpradeeban.blogspot.com/2014/04/installing-latexpdflatex-on-ubuntu.html

@irffanasiff
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Thank you !

@kernelwernel
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thanks a lot!

@Impassive
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Thank you, useful!

@GregHilston
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Thanks!

@nagellette
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Thanks!

@Jerry-wangsenscomm
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Thank you a lot.

@JustenRickert
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Thank !

@Michael-Obele
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Thank you very much. However, it appears that I already have a different compiler installed. I'm not sure if I can have both, or if I need to look for and remove the other compiler.

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RajSolai commented Jun 2, 2022

Thanks a lot :)

@firas-jolha
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👍

@kosyachniy
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good good

@comp-phys-marc
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comp-phys-marc commented Sep 27, 2022

Thank you.

Note, in order to build a .tex file using pdflatex installed on lubuntu using sudo apt-get install pdflatex after installing the recommended texlive packages (texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra), I had to change one file: usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty by simply removing the lines with {cannot-use-pdftex}.

Does this mean that some of the recommended features (i.e. from texlive-fonts-recommended or texlive-fonts-extra) are actually not compatible with pdflatex?

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comp-phys-marc commented Sep 27, 2022

Thank you.

Note, in order to build a .tex file using pdflatex installed on lubuntu using sudo apt-get install pdflatex after installing the recommended texlive packages (texlive-latex-base texlive-fonts-recommended texlive-fonts-extra texlive-latex-extra), I had to change one file: usr/share/texlive/texmf-dist/tex/latex/fontspec/fontspec.sty by simply removing the lines with {cannot-use-pdftex}.

Does this mean that some of the recommended features (i.e. from texlive-fonts-recommended or texlive-fonts-extra) are actually not compatible with pdflatex?

It looks like the issue arose specifically with fontspec, please see here for details whether you can use fontspec fonts with pdflatex. :)

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cer28 commented Nov 10, 2022

Thank you! These steps worked to get pdf conversion working in pandoc.

@AyubIman
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Thank you very much, friend.

@dataplayer12
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Thanks! Worked perfectly.

@rishi23root
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Hey, can you tell me the version you are getting using this method?

@raquelhortab
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I think this installs an old version of latex (2021) and now I get some version warnings when trying to install newer packages

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yspkm commented Oct 1, 2023

Thank you :)

@rishi23root
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I think this installs an old version of Latex (2021) and now I get some version warnings when trying to install newer packages

I am facing the same issue also the installation is too heavy, quite time taken and not 2023 version

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rishi23root commented Oct 2, 2023

To install TexLive 2023 as light as possible (according to me ;) ) with working Pdflatex

bash script code -->

#!/usr/bin/env bash

set -e -o pipefail


# PARSING COMMANDLINE ARGUMENTS *******************************************

# Where all the installed TeX Live goes. It defaults to a directory in your
# home called "texlive".
prefix=~/texlive
# Select the scheme to install. By default, it is "minimal".
scheme=scheme-minimal
# Tell the installer location, that is the directory where to put all the 
# stuff needed for the installation.
installer_dir=~/.texlive-installer
# Verify the installer before running it? By default, do not do it. It is
# recommended to do so, though.
verify_installer=no
# Write a file to be sourced and which exports new paths containing those
# ones of TeX Live
texliverc=~/.tlrc
# By default, adjust ~/.bashrc to register the new paths for TeX Live. 
adjust_bashrc=yes

# Parsing the commandline arguments.
while [ $# -gt 0 ]; do
  case $1 in
    --prefix=*)
      prefix=${1#*=}
      shift
    ;;
    --scheme=*)
      scheme=scheme-${1#*=}
      shift
    ;;
    --installer-dir=*)
      installer_dir=${1#*=}
      shift
    ;;
    --verify-installer)
      verify_installer=yes
      shift
    ;;
    --tlrc=*)
      texliverc=${1#*=}
      shift
    ;;
    --no-adjust-bashrc)
      adjust_bashrc=no
      shift
    ;;
    *)
      echo ":: unknown option: $1"
      exit
    ;;
  esac
done


## PREPARING FOR THE INSTALLER ********************************************

# Let us choose a directory where to download the installer and move there.
[ -d $installer_dir ] || mkdir -p $installer_dir
cd $installer_dir

echo -n ":: download install-tl-unx.tar.gz... "
wget -q https://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz
if [ $? -eq 0 ]
  then echo "OK"
  else
    echo "ERROR!"
    exit
fi

if [ $verify_installer == yes ]; then
  echo ":: verifying the installer... "
  wget -q http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz.sha512
  wget -q http://mirror.ctan.org/systems/texlive/tlnet/install-tl-unx.tar.gz.sha512.asc
  wget -q https://tug.org/texlive/files/texlive.asc
  
  sha512sum -c install-tl-unx.tar.gz.sha512

  gpg --quiet --import texlive.asc
  sig1=$(gpg --list-keys | sed -n '4p' | sed 's/ //g')
  sig2=$(gpg --verify install-tl-unx.tar.gz.sha512.asc 2>&1 | sed -n '7p' | sed -E 's/^[^:]+://;s/ //g')

  if [ $? -eq 0 ]
    then
      echo ":: OK"
    else
      echo ":: Cannot verify!"
      read -n 1 -p ":: continue anyway? (y/n) " ans
      [ $ans = y ] || exit 1
  fi
fi

echo ":: unpacking the installer..."
tar -xzf install-tl-unx.tar.gz --strip-components 1


## INSTALLATION PROCESS ***************************************************

echo ":: starting the installer..."
TEXLIVE_INSTALL_PREFIX=$prefix ./install-tl \
  --scheme $scheme --no-interaction

## POST-INSTALLATION PHASE ************************************************

# Fix PATH, so that we make TeX Live programs visible. To do so, we need to
# extract the year that is also the version of the TeX Live just installed.
year=`sed -n '1p' release-texlive.txt | sed -E 's/^[^0-9]+//g'`

# install pdflatex 
$prefix/$year/bin/x86_64-linux/tlmgr install latex-bin

# Write an appropriate file in $HOME.
cat <<EOF > $texliverc
#!/bin/sh

# Adding TeX Live paths...
export PATH=$prefix/$year/bin/x86_64-linux:\$PATH
export MANPATH=$prefix/$year/texmf-dist/doc/man:\$MANPATH
export INFOPATH=$prefix/$year/texmf-dist/doc/info:\$INFOPATH
EOF

[ $adjust_bashrc == yes ] && cat <<EOF >> ~/.bashrc

# Register TeX Live paths
[ -f $texliverc ] && source $texliverc

EOF

# EXPERIMENTAL | After you have done all the work above, prepare the an
# uninstaller for the installed TeX Live.
cat <<EOF > ~/.texlive-uninstaller
#!/bin/sh
rm -rfv $prefix
rm -rfv ~/.texlive*
rm -rfv ~/.texlive-uninstaller
EOF

chmod u+x ~/.texlive-uninstaller

echo ":: END!"

most important part is - tlmgr install latex-bin
for more info check https://github.com/rishi23root/resume-curator/tree/server/scripts where I am currently using this trick in production

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himloul commented Dec 22, 2023

Thank you :)

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Yelinz commented Jan 5, 2024

https://askubuntu.com/questions/1429846/how-can-i-install-latex-on-ubuntu-20-04-5

Only doing this worked for me aswell sudo apt install texlive

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piiskop commented Jan 16, 2024

I do it on 22.04 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2021.20220204-1).

I do it on 23.10 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2023.20230613-3).

How can I get the newest pdflatex on 22.04 that recognizes hyphenation in other languages than English?

@rishi23root
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I do it on 22.04 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2021.20220204-1).

I do it on 23.10 and get:

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-base

[sudo] password for kalmer:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree... Done
Reading state information... Done
texlive-latex-base is already the newest version (2023.20230613-3).

How can I get the newest pdflatex on 22.04 that recognizes hyphenation in other languages than English?

use this code to install latest text-live on 22.04 and use 'tlmgr' to install any required extra package,

i hope it helps

@rishi23root
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https://askubuntu.com/questions/1429846/how-can-i-install-latex-on-ubuntu-20-04-5

Only doing this worked for me as well sudo apt install texlive

can you please share more details because i want to achieve the same but i am not able to get latest version on text-live

@piiskop
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piiskop commented Feb 10, 2024

Maybe it is dangerous to install texlive's latest version as it might not work with your operating system. I guess this is why different operating systems have different versions of texlive available.

@rishi23root
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I wouldn't say it is dangerous, rather it is tricky to make it work

@rsarrazin2
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To generate PDFs as mentioned in How to create a PDF-out-of-Sphinx-documentation-tool, I had to install all of the above plus latexmk.

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turbcool commented Jul 8, 2024

To generate png using latexpdf, i had to install all of the above plus ghostscript.

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