Installation of TU Darmstadt Latex Template for thesis (KOM Department)

tud_latex_template_for_thesis.md

Steps for the installation of TUD Thesis Template:

Note: I'm using Vagrant, so latex compiler will be installed in a VM.

1. Download & Install Vagrant on your machine (https://www.vagrantup.com/)
2. Download & Install VirtualBox. Vagrant uses virtualbox to create a local VM.
3. Run the following command to initalize a debian lenny VM on your machine:

   vagrant init felipelavinz/debian-lenny; vagrant up --provider virtualbox
   

4. Run vagrant ssh on your terminal to open the console of your VM.
5. Update apt sources
   1. Open sources file in your favorite editor sudo vim /etc/apt/sources.list. I prefer vim but other editors like vi/nano can also be used
   2. Append following lines on the top of sources file:

      deb http://exp1.fkp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/tuddesign/ lenny tud-design
      deb-src http://exp1.fkp.physik.tu-darmstadt.de/tuddesign/ lenny tud-design
      

6. Run following commands to finalize installation: (Note: Ubuntu will complain that these sources are unreliable for installation, ignore all those warnings)

sudo apt-get update ; \
sudo apt-get install debian-tuddesign-keyring ; \
sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install t1-tudfonts tex-tudfonts ttf-tudfonts

sudo apt-get install latex-tuddesign

sudo apt-get install latex-tuddesign-thesis

7. Download the latex Template:

https://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/fileadmin/Externer_Bereich/Teaching/Theses/Templates/tudkom_students_v1.1.zip

8. Update tex files & compile using following commands:

latex tudkom_students__20131209_v1.1.tex
pdflatex tudkom_students__20131209_v1.1.tex

9. To access your local os directory (vagrant automatically mounts the current directory to vm), change directory to /vagrant folder cd /vagrant