How To Install texlive-lang-spanish on Debian 10

Learn how to install texlive-lang-spanish on Debian 10 with this tutorial. texlive-lang-spanish is TeX Live

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-spanish on Debian 10.

What is texlive-lang-spanish

texlive-lang-spanish is:

Support for Spanish.

This package includes the following CTAN packages:

babel-catalan – Babel contributed support for Catalan

babel-galician – Babel/Polyglossia support for Galician

babel-spanglish – Simplified Spanish support for Babel

babel-spanish – Babel support for Spanish

es-tex-faq – CervanTeX (Spanish TeX Group) FAQ

hyphen-catalan – Catalan hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-galician – Galician hyphenation patterns.

hyphen-spanish – Spanish hyphenation patterns.

l2tabu-spanish – Spanish translation of “Obsolete packages and commands”

latex2e-help-texinfo-spanish – Unofficial reference manual covering LaTeX2e

latexcheat-esmx – A LaTeX cheat sheet, in Spanish

lshort-spanish – Short introduction to LaTeX, Spanish translation

spanish-mx – Typeset Spanish as in Mexico

texlive-es – TeX Live manual (Spanish)

There are three methods to install texlive-lang-spanish on Debian 10. 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-spanish 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-spanish using apt-get by running the following command:

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

Install texlive-lang-spanish Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

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

sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-spanish

Install texlive-lang-spanish 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-spanish using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-spanish

How To Uninstall texlive-lang-spanish on Debian 10

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

sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-spanish

Uninstall texlive-lang-spanish And Its Dependencies

To uninstall texlive-lang-spanish and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 10, we can use the command below:

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

Remove texlive-lang-spanish Configurations and Data

To remove texlive-lang-spanish configuration and data from Debian 10 we can use the following command:

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

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

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

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

Dependencies

texlive-lang-spanish have the following dependencies:

References

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-spanish package on Debian 10 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.