How To Install libreoffice-writer2latex on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-writer2latex
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is libreoffice-writer2latex
libreoffice-writer2latex is:
Writer2LaTeX is a java utility to convert OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice documents – in particular documents containing formulas – into other formats. It is actually a collection of four converters, i.e.:
- Writer2LaTeX converts documents into LaTeX 2e format for high quality typesetting.
- Writer2BibTeX extracts bibliographic data from a document and stores it in BibTeX format (works together with Writer2LaTeX).
- Writer2xhtml converts documents into XHTML 1.0 or XHTML 1.1+MathML 2.0 with CSS2.
- Calc2xhtml is a companion to Writer2xhtml that converts Calc documents to XHTML 1.0 with CSS2 to display your spreadsheets on the web.
This package contains the extension providing writer2latex for LibreOffice.
There are three methods to install libreoffice-writer2latex
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 libreoffice-writer2latex Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-writer2latex
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install libreoffice-writer2latex
Install libreoffice-writer2latex Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install libreoffice-writer2latex
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install libreoffice-writer2latex
Install libreoffice-writer2latex 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 libreoffice-writer2latex
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install libreoffice-writer2latex
How To Uninstall libreoffice-writer2latex on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the libreoffice-writer2latex
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove libreoffice-writer2latex
Uninstall libreoffice-writer2latex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall libreoffice-writer2latex
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove libreoffice-writer2latex
Remove libreoffice-writer2latex Configurations and Data
To remove libreoffice-writer2latex
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge libreoffice-writer2latex
Remove libreoffice-writer2latex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove libreoffice-writer2latex
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libreoffice-writer2latex
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install libreoffice-writer2latex
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.