How To Install texworks-scripting-lua on Ubuntu 22.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks-scripting-lua
on Ubuntu 22.04.
What is texworks-scripting-lua
texworks-scripting-lua is:
An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.
This package contains a lua scripting plugin for TeXworks.
There are three methods to install texworks-scripting-lua
on Ubuntu 22.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install texworks-scripting-lua Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks-scripting-lua
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texworks-scripting-lua
Install texworks-scripting-lua Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks-scripting-lua
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texworks-scripting-lua
Install texworks-scripting-lua 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 Ubuntu. Update apt database with aptitude
using the following command.
sudo aptitude update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks-scripting-lua
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texworks-scripting-lua
How To Uninstall texworks-scripting-lua on Ubuntu 22.04
To uninstall only the texworks-scripting-lua
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texworks-scripting-lua
Uninstall texworks-scripting-lua And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texworks-scripting-lua
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 22.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texworks-scripting-lua
Remove texworks-scripting-lua Configurations and Data
To remove texworks-scripting-lua
configuration and data from Ubuntu 22.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texworks-scripting-lua
Remove texworks-scripting-lua configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texworks-scripting-lua
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texworks-scripting-lua
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks-scripting-lua
package on Ubuntu 22.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.