How To Install texlive-lang-cjk on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-cjk on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is texlive-lang-cjk
texlive-lang-cjk is:
Packages supporting a combination of Chinese, Japanese, Korean, including macros, fonts, documentation. Also Thai in the c90 encoding, since there is some overlap in those fonts; standard Thai support is in collection-langother. Additional packages for CJK are in their individual language collections.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
c90 – c90 font encoding for Thai
cjk-gs-integrate – Tools to integrate CJK fonts into Ghostscript
cjkpunct – Adjust locations and kerning of CJK punctuation marks
garuda-c90 – TeX support (from CJK) for the garuda font
fixjfm – Fix JFM (for *pTeX)
jfmutil – Utility to process pTeX-extended TFM and VF
norasi-c90 – TeX support (from CJK) for the norasi font
pxtatescale – Patch to graphics driver for scaling in vertical direction of pTeX
xcjk2uni – Convert CJK characters to Unicode, in pdfTeX
zxjafont – Set up Japanese font families for XeLaTeX
There are three methods to install texlive-lang-cjk 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-cjk 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-cjk using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-cjk
Install texlive-lang-cjk Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-cjk using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-cjk
Install texlive-lang-cjk 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-cjk using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-cjk
How To Uninstall texlive-lang-cjk on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the texlive-lang-cjk package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-cjk
Uninstall texlive-lang-cjk And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-lang-cjk 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-cjk
Remove texlive-lang-cjk Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-lang-cjk configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-cjk
Remove texlive-lang-cjk configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-cjk configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-cjk
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-cjk package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
