How To Install plastex 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 plastex on Ubuntu.
What is plastex
plastex is:
plasTeX is a collection of Python frameworks that allow you to process LaTeX documents. This processing includes, but is not limited to, conversion of LaTeX documents to various document formats. Of course, it is capable of converting to HTML or XML formats such as DocBook and tBook, but it is an open framework that allows you to drive any type of rendering. This means that it could be used to drive a COM object that creates a MS Word Document.
The plasTeX framework allows you to control all of the processes including tokenizing, object creation, and rendering through API calls. You also have access to all of the internals such as counters, the states of “if” commands, locally and globally defined macros, labels and references, etc. In essence, it is a LaTeX document processor that gives you the advantages of an XML document in the context of a language as superb as Python.
This package contains the command line tool ‘plastex’.
There are three methods to install plastex 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 plastex Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install plastex using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install plastex
Install plastex Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install plastex using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install plastex
Install plastex 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 plastex using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install plastex
How To Uninstall plastex on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the plastex package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove plastex
Uninstall plastex And Its Dependencies
To uninstall plastex and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove plastex
Remove plastex Configurations and Data
To remove plastex configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge plastex
Remove plastex configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove plastex configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge plastex
Dependencies
plastex have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install plastex package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.