How To Install vim-latexsuite on Ubuntu 20.04
Introduction
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-latexsuite
on Ubuntu 20.04.
What is vim-latexsuite
vim-latexsuite is:
vim-latexsuite attempts to provide a comprehensive set of tools to view, edit and compile LaTeX documents in Vim. Together, they provide tools starting from macros to speed up editing LaTeX documents to functions for forward searching .dvi documents.
This package also provides help to LaTeX in Vim.
By default, vim-latexsuite is not enabled. Please read /usr/share/doc/vim-latexsuite/README.Debian after installing the package.
There are three methods to install vim-latexsuite
on Ubuntu 20.04. We can use apt-get
, apt
and aptitude
. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.
Install vim-latexsuite Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get
using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-latexsuite
using apt-get
by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install vim-latexsuite
Install vim-latexsuite Using apt
Update apt database with apt
using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install vim-latexsuite
using apt
by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install vim-latexsuite
Install vim-latexsuite 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 vim-latexsuite
using aptitude
by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install vim-latexsuite
How To Uninstall vim-latexsuite on Ubuntu 20.04
To uninstall only the vim-latexsuite
package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove vim-latexsuite
Uninstall vim-latexsuite And Its Dependencies
To uninstall vim-latexsuite
and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu 20.04, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove vim-latexsuite
Remove vim-latexsuite Configurations and Data
To remove vim-latexsuite
configuration and data from Ubuntu 20.04 we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge vim-latexsuite
Remove vim-latexsuite configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove vim-latexsuite
configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge vim-latexsuite
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install vim-latexsuite
package on Ubuntu 20.04 using different package management tools: apt
, apt-get
and aptitude
.