How To Install texworks on Ubuntu 18.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks on Ubuntu 18.04.
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 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 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 Ubuntu. 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 Ubuntu 18.04
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 Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texworks
Remove texworks Configurations and Data
To remove texworks configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 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
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Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texworks package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.
