How To Install texlive-lang-chinese on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-chinese on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is texlive-lang-chinese
texlive-lang-chinese is:
Support for Chinese; additional packages in collection-langcjk.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
arphic-ttf – TrueType version of Chinese Arphic fonts
asymptote-by-example-zh-cn – Asymptote by example
asymptote-faq-zh-cn – Asymptote FAQ (Chinese translation)
asymptote-manual-zh-cn – A Chinese translation of the asymptote manual
cns – Chinese/Japanese/Korean fonts
ctex – LaTeX classes and packages for Chinese typesetting
ctex-faq – LaTeX FAQ by the Chinese TeX Society (ctex.org)
fandol – Four basic fonts for Chinese typesetting
hyphen-chinese – Chinese pinyin hyphenation patterns.
impatient-cn – Free edition of the book “TeX for the Impatient”
latex-notes-zh-cn – Chinese Introduction to TeX and LaTeX
lshort-chinese – Introduction to LaTeX, in Chinese
texlive-zh-cn – TeX Live manual (Chinese)
texproposal – A proposal prototype for LaTeX promotion in Chinese universities
upzhkinsoku – Supplementary Chinese kinsoku for Unicode *pTeX
xpinyin – Automatically add pinyin to Chinese characters
zhlipsum – Chinese dummy text
zhmetrics – TFM subfont files for using Chinese fonts in 8-bit TeX
zhmetrics-uptex – Chinese font metrics for upTeX
zhnumber – Typeset Chinese representations of numbers
zhspacing – Spacing for mixed CJK-English documents in XeTeX
There are three methods to install texlive-lang-chinese on Ubuntu 18.04. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install texlive-lang-chinese Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-chinese using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-chinese
Install texlive-lang-chinese Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-chinese using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-chinese
Install texlive-lang-chinese 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 texlive-lang-chinese using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-chinese
How To Uninstall texlive-lang-chinese on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the texlive-lang-chinese package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-chinese
Uninstall texlive-lang-chinese And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-lang-chinese and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-lang-chinese
Remove texlive-lang-chinese Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-lang-chinese configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-chinese
Remove texlive-lang-chinese configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-chinese configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-chinese
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-chinese package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
