How To Install texworks on Debian 12
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks
on Debian 12.
What is texworks
texworks is:
An environment for authoring TeX (LaTeX, ConTeXt, etc) documents, with a Unicode-based, TeX-aware editor, integrated PDF viewer, and a clean, simple interface accessible to casual and non-technical users.
TeXworks is inspired by Dick Koch’s award-winning TeXShop program for Mac OS X, which has made quality typesetting through TeX accessible to a wider community of users, without a technical or intimidating face. The goal of TeXworks is to deliver a similarly integrated, easy-to-use environment for users on other platforms, especially GNU/Linux and Windows.
There are three methods to install texworks
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 texworks Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texworks
Install texworks Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texworks
Install texworks 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 texworks
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texworks
How To Uninstall texworks on Debian 12
To uninstall only the texworks
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texworks
Uninstall texworks And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texworks
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Debian 12, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texworks
Remove texworks Configurations and Data
To remove texworks
configuration and data from Debian 12 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texworks
Remove texworks configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texworks
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texworks
Dependencies
texworks have the following dependencies:
- libc6
- libgcc-s1
- libhunspell-1.7-0
- libpoppler-qt5-1
- libqt5concurrent5
- libqt5core5a
- libqt5dbus5
- libqt5gui5
- libqt5qml5
- libqt5script5
- libqt5scripttools5
- libqt5widgets5
- libstdc++6
- libsynctex2
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks
package on Debian 12 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.