How To Install texlive-lang-other on Debian 9

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-other on Debian 9. texlive-lang-other is TeX Live

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-other on Debian 9.

What is texlive-lang-other

texlive-lang-other is:

Support for languages not otherwise listed, including Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Indonesian, and plenty more. The split is made simply on the basis of the size of the support, to keep both collection sizes and the number of collections reasonable.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

amsldoc-vn – Vietnamese translation of AMSLaTeX documentation

aramaic-serto – Fonts and LaTeX for Syriac written in Serto

babel-bahasa – Support for Bahasa within babel

babel-esperanto – Babel support for Esperanto

babel-georgian – Babel

babel-hebrew – Babel support for Hebrew

babel-interlingua – Babel support for Interlingua

babel-sorbian – Babel support for Upper and Lower Sorbian

babel-thai – Support for Thai within babel

babel-vietnamese – Babel support for typesetting Vietnamese

cjhebrew – Typeset Hebrew with LaTeX

ctib – Tibetan for TeX and LaTeX2e

fonts-tlwg – Thai fonts for LaTeX from TLWG

hyphen-afrikaans – Afrikaans hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-coptic – Coptic hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-esperanto – Esperanto hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-georgian – Georgian hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-indonesian – Indonesian hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-interlingua – Interlingua hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-thai – Thai hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-turkmen – Turkmen hyphenation patterns.

lshort-thai – Introduction to LaTeX in Thai

lshort-vietnamese – Vietnamese version of the LaTeX introduction

ntheorem-vn – Vietnamese translation of documentation of ntheorem

padauk – a high-quality TrueType font that supports the many diverse languages that use the Myanmar script

vntex – Support for Vietnamese

There are three methods to install texlive-lang-other on Debian 9. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install texlive-lang-other Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-other using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-other

Install texlive-lang-other Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-other using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-other

Install texlive-lang-other Using aptitude

If you want to follow this method, you might need to install aptitude first since aptitude is usually not installed by default on Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-other using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-other

How To Uninstall texlive-lang-other on Debian 9

To uninstall only the texlive-lang-other package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-other

Uninstall texlive-lang-other And Its Dependencies

To uninstall texlive-lang-other and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 9, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-lang-other

Remove texlive-lang-other Configurations and Data

To remove texlive-lang-other configuration and data from Debian 9 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-other

Remove texlive-lang-other configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-other configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-other

Dependencies

texlive-lang-other have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-other package on Debian 9 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.