How To Install texlive-lang-greek on Debian 12

Learn how to install texlive-lang-greek on Debian 12 with this tutorial. texlive-lang-greek is TeX Live

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-greek on Debian 12.

What is texlive-lang-greek

texlive-lang-greek is:

Support for Greek.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

babel-greek – Babel support for documents written in Greek

begingreek – Greek environment to be used with pdfLaTeX only

betababel – Insert ancient greek text coded in Beta Code

cbfonts – Complete set of Greek fonts

cbfonts-fd – LaTeX font description files for the CB Greek fonts

gfsbaskerville – A Greek font, from one such by Baskerville

gfsporson – A Greek font, originally from Porson

greek-fontenc – LICR macros and encoding definition files for Greek

greek-inputenc – Greek encoding support for inputenc

greekdates – Provides ancient Greek day and month names, dates, etc

greektex – Fonts for typesetting Greek/English documents

greektonoi – Facilitates writing/editing of multiaccented greek

hyphen-ancientgreek – Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-greek – Modern Greek hyphenation patterns.

ibycus-babel – Use the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel

ibygrk – Fonts and macros to typeset ancient Greek

kerkis – Kerkis (Greek) font family

levy – Fonts for typesetting classical greek

lgreek – LaTeX macros for using Silvio Levy’s Greek fonts

lgrmath – Use LGR-encoded fonts in math mode

mkgrkindex – Makeindex working with Greek

talos – A Greek cult font from the eighties

teubner – Philological typesetting of classical Greek

xgreek – Greek Language Support for XeLaTeX and LuaLaTeX

yannisgr – Greek fonts by Yannis Haralambous

There are three methods to install texlive-lang-greek on Debian 12. 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-greek 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-greek using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-greek

Install texlive-lang-greek Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-greek using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-greek

Install texlive-lang-greek 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 Debian. Update apt database with aptitude using the following command.

sudo aptitude update

After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-greek using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-greek

How To Uninstall texlive-lang-greek on Debian 12

To uninstall only the texlive-lang-greek package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-greek

Uninstall texlive-lang-greek And Its Dependencies

To uninstall texlive-lang-greek and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-lang-greek

Remove texlive-lang-greek Configurations and Data

To remove texlive-lang-greek configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-greek

Remove texlive-lang-greek configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-greek configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-greek

Dependencies

texlive-lang-greek have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-greek package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.