How To Install libwriter2latex-java on Ubuntu

Posted on April 1, 2023  (Last modified on May 20, 2023 )

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Introduction

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwriter2latex-java on Ubuntu.

What is libwriter2latex-java

libwriter2latex-java is:

Writer2LaTeX is a java utility to convert OpenOffice.org/LibreOffice documents - in particular documents containing formulas - into other formats. It is actually a collection of four converters, i.e.:

1. Writer2LaTeX converts documents into LaTeX 2e format for high quality typesetting.
2. Writer2BibTeX extracts bibliographic data from a document and stores it in BibTeX format (works together with Writer2LaTeX).
3. Writer2xhtml converts documents into XHTML 1.0 or XHTML 1.1+MathML 2.0 with CSS2.
4. Calc2xhtml is a companion to Writer2xhtml that converts Calc documents to XHTML 1.0 with CSS2 to display your spreadsheets on the web.

This package contains the java library.

There are three methods to install libwriter2latex-java on Ubuntu. We can use apt-get, apt and aptitude. In the following sections we will describe each method. You can choose one of them.

Install libwriter2latex-java Using apt-get

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

sudo apt-get update

After updating apt database, We can install libwriter2latex-java using apt-get by running the following command:

sudo apt-get -y install libwriter2latex-java

Install libwriter2latex-java Using apt

Update apt database with apt using the following command.

sudo apt update

After updating apt database, We can install libwriter2latex-java using apt by running the following command:

sudo apt -y install libwriter2latex-java

Install libwriter2latex-java 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 libwriter2latex-java using aptitude by running the following command:

sudo aptitude -y install libwriter2latex-java

How To Uninstall libwriter2latex-java on Ubuntu

To uninstall only the libwriter2latex-java package we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get remove libwriter2latex-java

Uninstall libwriter2latex-java And Its Dependencies

To uninstall libwriter2latex-java and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove libwriter2latex-java

Remove libwriter2latex-java Configurations and Data

To remove libwriter2latex-java configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y purge libwriter2latex-java

Remove libwriter2latex-java configuration, data, and all of its dependencies

We can use the following command to remove libwriter2latex-java configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:

sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge libwriter2latex-java

Dependencies

libwriter2latex-java have the following dependencies:

• libxalan2-java
• libxerces2-java
• libandroid-json-java
• libjaxb-api-java
• tex-common

References

• libwriter2latex-java website

Summary

In this tutorial we learn how to install libwriter2latex-java package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.