How To Install latexml on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install latexml
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is latexml
latexml is:
latexml is a program, written in Perl, that attempts to faithfully mimic TeX’s behaviour, but produces XML instead of dvi. The document model of the target XML makes explicit the model implied by LaTeX.
The processing and model are both extensible; you can define the mapping between TeX constructs and the XML fragments to be created. A postprocessor, latexmlpost converts this XML into other formats such as HTML or XHTML, with options to convert the math into MathML (currently only presentation) or images.
There are three methods to install latexml
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install latexml Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install latexml
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install latexml
Install latexml Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install latexml
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install latexml
Install latexml 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 latexml
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install latexml
How To Uninstall latexml on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the latexml
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove latexml
Uninstall latexml And Its Dependencies
To uninstall latexml
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove latexml
Remove latexml Configurations and Data
To remove latexml
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge latexml
Remove latexml configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove latexml
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge latexml
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install latexml
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.