<div dir="ltr">Why do want to "<span style="font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">deinstall all the latex packages"? Are these the latex packages installed by running "</span><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">apt-get install texlive-full" or are they packages that were already installed due to dependencies? </span><div>
<span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px">One problem with using GUI tools is that it is not as easy to past a record of your session into email so others can help with problems. </span><font color="#500050" face="arial, sans-serif">Running </font><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"</span><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">apt-get install texlive-full" (actually </span><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;font-family:arial,sans-serif">"sudo </span><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">apt-get install texlive-full" in a terminal is the usual way to do this) </span><span style="font-size:12.727272033691406px;color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif">should work even if some packages were previously installed.</span><div>
<div><span style="color:rgb(80,0,80);font-family:arial,sans-serif;font-size:12.727272033691406px"><br></span></div></div></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Sat, Nov 16, 2013 at 11:22 AM, Gerald Pechoc <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:ubuntu@pechoc.eu" target="_blank">ubuntu@pechoc.eu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">Hi Norbert,<br>
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I have now installed synaptics to deinstall all the latex packages.<br>
This is not really possible, also because of dependencies, where I am not sure to delete programs I need otherwise.<br>
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How can I manage that problem ?<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888"><br>
<br>
Gerald</font></span><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5"><br>
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On 2013-11-16 15:16, Norbert Preining wrote:<br>
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Hi Geradl,<br>
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On Sa, 16 Nov 2013, Gerald Pechoc wrote:<br>
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1) pdflatex could not be called (obviously some path problem)<br>
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THat is strange. Did you install texlive-full? It should not happen.<br>
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2) I had to install an additional Latex package (chemfig.sty)<br>
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THat is contained in texlive-pictures, and thus automatically installed<br>
when doing<br>
apt-get install texlive-full<br>
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°What is the best and easiest way on Ubuntu 12.04 LTS to get a running<br>
TEX System ?<br>
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Install it from the Ubuntu repository.<br>
<br>
Norbert<br>
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