How To Install latex2rtf on Kali Linux

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install latex2rtf on Kali Linux.

What is latex2rtf

latex2rtf is:

Attempts to convert as much formatting information as possible from LaTeX to Microsoft’s Rich Text Format (RTF). While RTF has limited support for mathematical markup, it is widely supported as a “least common denominator” word processing format.

The detailed documentation is in the latex2rtf-doc package.

There are three methods to install latex2rtf 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 latex2rtf Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install latex2rtf using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install latex2rtf

Install latex2rtf Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install latex2rtf using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install latex2rtf

Install latex2rtf 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 latex2rtf using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install latex2rtf

How To Uninstall latex2rtf on Kali Linux

To uninstall only the latex2rtf package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove latex2rtf

Uninstall latex2rtf And Its Dependencies

To uninstall latex2rtf and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Kali Linux, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove latex2rtf

Remove latex2rtf Configurations and Data

To remove latex2rtf configuration and data from Kali Linux we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge latex2rtf

Remove latex2rtf configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove latex2rtf configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latex2rtf

Dependencies

latex2rtf have the following dependencies:

• imagemagick
• netpbm
• texlive-base
• libc6

References

• latex2rtf website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install latex2rtf package on Kali Linux using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.