How To Install texlive-lang-other on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-other on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is texlive-lang-other
texlive-lang-other is:
Support for languages not otherwise listed, including Indic, Thai, Vietnamese, Hebrew, Indonesian, African languages, and plenty more. The split is made simply on the basis of the size of the support, to keep both collection sizes and the number of collections reasonable.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
amsldoc-vn – Vietnamese translation of AMSLaTeX documentation
aramaic-serto – Fonts and LaTeX for Syriac written in Serto
hyphen-armenian – Armenian hyphenation patterns.
babel-azerbaijani – Support for Azerbaijani within babel
babel-esperanto – Babel support for Esperanto
babel-georgian – Babel support for Georgian
babel-hebrew – Babel support for Hebrew
babel-indonesian – Support for Indonesian within babel
babel-interlingua – Babel support for Interlingua
babel-malay – Support for Malay within babel
babel-sorbian – Babel support for Upper and Lower Sorbian
babel-thai – Support for Thai within babel
babel-vietnamese – Babel support for typesetting Vietnamese
bangtex – Writing Bangla and Assamese with LaTeX
bengali – Support for the Bengali language
burmese – Basic Support for Writing Burmese
cjhebrew – Typeset Hebrew with LaTeX
ctib – Tibetan for TeX and LaTeX2e
ebong – Utility for writing Bengali in Rapid Roman Format
ethiop – LaTeX macros and fonts for typesetting Amharic
ethiop-t1 – Type 1 versions of Amharic fonts
fc – Fonts for African languages
fonts-tlwg – Thai fonts for LaTeX from TLWG
hyphen-afrikaans – Afrikaans hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-coptic – Coptic hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-esperanto – Esperanto hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-ethiopic – Hyphenation patterns for Ethiopic scripts.
hyphen-georgian – Georgian hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-indic – Indic hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-indonesian – Indonesian hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-interlingua – Interlingua hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-sanskrit – Sanskrit hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-thai – Thai hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-turkmen – Turkmen hyphenation patterns.
latex-mr – A practical guide to LaTeX and Polyglossia for Marathi and other Indian languages
latexbangla – Enhanced LaTeX integration for Bangla
lshort-thai – Introduction to LaTeX in Thai
lshort-vietnamese – Vietnamese version of the LaTeX introduction
ntheorem-vn – Vietnamese translation of documentation of ntheorem
padauk – a high-quality TrueType font that supports the many diverse languages that use the Myanmar script
sanskrit – Sanskrit support
sanskrit-t1 – Type 1 version of ‘skt’ fonts for Sanskrit
thaienum – Thai labels in enumerate environments
thaispec – Thai Language Typesetting in XeLaTeX
velthuis – Typeset Devanagari
vntex – Support for Vietnamese
wnri – Ridgeway’s fonts
wnri-latex – LaTeX support for wnri fonts
xetex-devanagari – XeTeX input map for Unicode Devanagari
There are three methods to install texlive-lang-other 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-other 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-other using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-other
Install texlive-lang-other Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-other using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-other
Install texlive-lang-other 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-other using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-other
How To Uninstall texlive-lang-other on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the texlive-lang-other package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-other
Uninstall texlive-lang-other And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-lang-other 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-other
Remove texlive-lang-other Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-lang-other configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-other
Remove texlive-lang-other configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-other configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-other
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-other package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
