How To Install latexila on Kali Linux

Introduction

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

What is latexila

latexila is:

LaTeXila is a LaTeX editor for GNOME. It integrates the various tools required for processing LaTeX documents. It provides menus, buttons and templates to assist with the edition and the compilation of documents.

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

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

sudo apt-get update

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

sudo apt-get -y install latexila

Install latexila Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install latexila

Install latexila 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 latexila using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install latexila

How To Uninstall latexila on Kali Linux

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

sudo apt-get remove latexila

Uninstall latexila And Its Dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove latexila

Remove latexila Configurations and Data

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

sudo apt-get -y purge latexila

Remove latexila configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

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

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latexila

Dependencies

latexila have the following dependencies:

• latexila-data
• libc6
• libgdk-pixbuf-2.0-0
• libgee-0.8-2
• libglib2.0-0
• libgspell-1-2
• libgtk-3-0
• libgtksourceview-3.0-1
• libpango-1.0-0

References

• latexila website

Summary

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