How To Install texworks-scripting-python on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks-scripting-python
on Ubuntu 18.04.
What is texworks-scripting-python
texworks-scripting-python 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.
This package contains a Python scripting plugin for TeXworks.
There are three methods to install texworks-scripting-python
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 texworks-scripting-python 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-scripting-python
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texworks-scripting-python
Install texworks-scripting-python Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texworks-scripting-python
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texworks-scripting-python
Install texworks-scripting-python 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 texworks-scripting-python
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texworks-scripting-python
How To Uninstall texworks-scripting-python on Ubuntu 18.04
To uninstall only the texworks-scripting-python
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texworks-scripting-python
Uninstall texworks-scripting-python And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texworks-scripting-python
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texworks-scripting-python
Remove texworks-scripting-python Configurations and Data
To remove texworks-scripting-python
configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texworks-scripting-python
Remove texworks-scripting-python configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texworks-scripting-python
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texworks-scripting-python
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks-scripting-python
package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.