How To Install texlive-lang-greek 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 texlive-lang-greek on Ubuntu.
What is texlive-lang-greek
texlive-lang-greek is:
Support for Greek.
This package includes the following CTAN packages:
babel-greek – Babel support for documents written in Greek
begingreek – Greek environment to be used with pdfLaTeX only
betababel – Insert ancient greek text coded in Beta Code
cbfonts – Complete set of Greek fonts
cbfonts-fd – LaTeX font description files for the CB Greek fonts
gfsbaskerville – A Greek font, from one such by Baskerville
gfsporson – A Greek font, originally from Porson
greek-fontenc – LICR macros and encoding definition files for Greek
greek-inputenc – Greek encoding support for inputenc
greekdates – Provides ancient Greek day and month names, dates, etc
greektex – Fonts for typesetting Greek/English documents
greektonoi – Facilitates writing/editing of multiaccented greek
hyphen-ancientgreek – Ancient Greek hyphenation patterns.
hyphen-greek – Modern Greek hyphenation patterns.
ibycus-babel – Use the Ibycus 4 Greek font with Babel
ibygrk – Fonts and macros to typeset ancient Greek
kerkis – Kerkis (Greek) font family
levy – Fonts for typesetting classical greek
lgreek – LaTeX macros for using Silvio Levy’s Greek fonts
mkgrkindex – Makeindex working with Greek
talos – A Greek cult font from the eighties
teubner – Philological typesetting of classical Greek
xgreek – XeLaTeX package for typesetting Greek language documents (beta release)
yannisgr – Greek fonts by Yannis Haralambous
There are three methods to install texlive-lang-greek 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 texlive-lang-greek Using apt-get
Update apt database with apt-get using the following command.
sudo apt-get update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-greek using apt-get by running the following command:
sudo apt-get -y install texlive-lang-greek
Install texlive-lang-greek Using apt
Update apt database with apt using the following command.
sudo apt update
After updating apt database, We can install texlive-lang-greek using apt by running the following command:
sudo apt -y install texlive-lang-greek
Install texlive-lang-greek 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 texlive-lang-greek using aptitude by running the following command:
sudo aptitude -y install texlive-lang-greek
How To Uninstall texlive-lang-greek on Ubuntu
To uninstall only the texlive-lang-greek package we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get remove texlive-lang-greek
Uninstall texlive-lang-greek And Its Dependencies
To uninstall texlive-lang-greek and its dependencies that are no longer needed by Ubuntu, we can use the command below:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove texlive-lang-greek
Remove texlive-lang-greek Configurations and Data
To remove texlive-lang-greek configuration and data from Ubuntu we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y purge texlive-lang-greek
Remove texlive-lang-greek configuration, data, and all of its dependencies
We can use the following command to remove texlive-lang-greek configurations, data and all of its dependencies, we can use the following command:
sudo apt-get -y autoremove --purge texlive-lang-greek
Dependencies
texlive-lang-greek have the following dependencies:
References
Summary
In this tutorial we learn how to install texlive-lang-greek package on Ubuntu using different package management tools: apt, apt-get and aptitude.