How To Install latex-cjk-common on Kali Linux

In this tutorial we learn how to install latex-cjk-common on Kali Linux. latex-cjk-common is LaTeX macro package for CJK (Chinese/Japanese/Korean)

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install latex-cjk-common on Kali Linux.

What is latex-cjk-common

latex-cjk-common is:

CJK is a macro package for LaTeX to enable typesetting in Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai, and it supports Vietnamese through the “vntex” macro. And you can still use Russian, Greek and other languages in the same document. It supports various CJK encodings, like UTF-8, Big5, GB, JIS, KS, CNS (through CEF) and Emacs MULE.

This package will install the common files, as well as a few GNU/Emacs Lisp files, and it provides support for furigana (“ruby text”) and PinYin, either with or without tone marks.

There are three methods to install latex-cjk-common on Kali Linux. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install latex-cjk-common Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install latex-cjk-common using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install latex-cjk-common

Install latex-cjk-common Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install latex-cjk-common using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install latex-cjk-common

Install latex-cjk-common Using aptitude

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

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install latex-cjk-common using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install latex-cjk-common

How To Uninstall latex-cjk-common on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the latex-cjk-common package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove latex-cjk-common

Uninstall latex-cjk-common And Its Dependencies

To uninstall latex-cjk-common and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove latex-cjk-common

Remove latex-cjk-common Configurations and Data

To remove latex-cjk-common configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge latex-cjk-common

Remove latex-cjk-common configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove latex-cjk-common configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latex-cjk-common

Dependencies

latex-cjk-common have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install latex-cjk-common package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.