How To Install tralics on Ubuntu 18.04

In this tutorial we learn how to install tralics on Ubuntu 18.04. tralics is LaTeX to XML translator

Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install tralics on Ubuntu 18.04.

What is tralics

tralics is:

A configurable tool that processes LaTeX source, generating parseable XML. The XML is based on semantics of the text and can be used to process the document and convert into other format.

From: http://www-sop.inria.fr/apics/tralics/

There are three methods to install tralics 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 tralics Using apt-get

Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install tralics using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install tralics

Install tralics Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install tralics using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install tralics

Install tralics 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 tralics using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install tralics

How To Uninstall tralics on Ubuntu 18.04

To uninstall only the tralics package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove tralics

Uninstall tralics And Its Dependencies

To uninstall tralics and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 18.04, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove tralics

Remove tralics Configurations and Data

To remove tralics configuration and data from Ubuntu 18.04 we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge tralics

Remove tralics configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove tralics configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge tralics

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Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install tralics package on Ubuntu 18.04 using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.