texlive

[hellzalkemist]

Hello. I installed the texlive-full package through Synaptic Package Manager and the installation was succesful. However I cannot find any new applications added for me to use it. I heard latex is great for writing Mathematical stuffs.
Thanks.

[XCan]

Latex is not really a graphical application, thus you won't find it in the menu. What you do is to write a document in latex-code (very easy compared to programming code), and compile it, i.e., write a document in draft.tex and compile it with

 latex draft.tex

Although latex in very many ways is better than WYSIWYG editors, getting into it will take you a few moments. There are many tutorials around, I can't recommend any as I got into the whole thing by simply being given a latex document for an article. However, I do recommend http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Latex for reference.

Oh, there are also editors available that will help you. I use gedit+latex plugin, but there are more advanced (in my opinion bloated) editors in the repos.

[Temposs]

If you want more of a GUI, there are options.

the program called LyX is probably the easiest way to get started with LaTeX.

Another alternative, the solution I actually use, is the gedit-latex-plugin. You can install that from synaptic. It's for the Ubuntu "text editor" which is called gedit. When you open a .tex file in gedit with this plugin installed, it shows a lot of useful latex tools that makes writing latex a lot easier.

[entropy1]

I have used gedit with the latex pluggin, and that works quite well. However, I prefer texmaker. But you need the latest version, which is not in the repositories. To read about texmaker, go to

http://www.xm1math.net/texmaker/

Click on the "download" link to see choices, e.g.,

Static i386 binary DEB package : texmaker_1.9.2-1_i386.deb (for DEBIAN-based Linux distributions : Ubuntu, debian, etc...)

or

Static amd64 binary DEB package : texmaker_1.9.2-1_amd64.deb (for DEBIAN-based Linux distributions : Ubuntu, debian, etc...)

After downloading, right click the file and choose Open with "GDebi Package Installer"

[hellzalkemist]

thanks a lot. that was really helpful.

[wannabegeek]

Good day,

I am a complete noob, with just a little Unix experience here and there....

I would like to get the gedit plugin to work and haven't had much luck. I found some forum articles dealing with how to get it , but it must have been for a different installation.

I am running Hardy.

Also, I tried to get a GUI called Gummi, which looked really cool and lite weight, however
I don't have all the Python files it wants and it's been a mess trying to sort that out.

I did have some success when I tried Latex in terminal. The output went to the desktop,
however, the math symbols did not work.

I used to use the amsmath and amsfont packages in my ******* days, when I ran TeXnic Center, it manages all the packages and auto downloads if a nwe one shows up in the preamble.

If anyone can offer some advice that would be great I need to write some reports soon.

TIA,
wannabegeek

[XCan]

Did you get the plugin from http://live.gnome.org/Gedit/LaTeXPlugin ?

How do I install the plugin?

First of all download the latest release of the plugin. It contains a folder and a file that you have to copy to ~/.gnome2/gedit/plugins, where ~ is your home directory. You may have to create gedit/plugins if you haven't installed any plugins, yet. After that you may restart gedit and activate the plugin in the settings dialog.

[wannabegeek]

thanks Xcan, will try and repost...

[jeneverboy]

Hi,

First of all I use LaTeX a lot, its most useful for making formulas.
I wondered if the automatic package updates work in UBUNTU, cause I had some problems there.

If you want to check if a package is installed use:

aptitude show yourpackage

BYe

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I'll just add that in order to use the gedit LaTeX plugin you need to install the rubber package from synaptic/apt-get.

+1 to the LaTeX wikibook and Kile is also another good LaTeX editor.