Installing TeXLive using ISO in Ubuntu

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May 4, 2011 by Milind Padalkar

The following tutorial will help you install TeXLive in Ubuntu. The article was initial written for TeXLive 2010 with Ubuntu 10.04. However, the same method works for all later releases of TeXLive and Ubuntu (successfully installed TeXLive 2015 on Ubuntu 14.04.3, yet to try on later releases). The procedure is simple, but for some time I didn’t realize what went wrong even after a successful installation. I checked the installed texlive packages in the Synaptic Package Manager and found that the older version packages still existed which I felt conflicted the current installations. I tried completely removing the old packages and BINGO! a fresh install of TeXLive 2010 worked seamlessly!

Here is what I did. Check for any previous TeXLive packages installed in the Synaptic Package Manager. In case you are using a newer version of Ubuntu (maybe 10.04+), then you may not find the Synaptic Package Manager installed on your system. So step 1 is to install the Synaptic Package Manager. Press Ctrl+Alt+T to open the terminal and use the following command to install the Synaptic Package Manager.

sudo apt-get install synaptic

Once the Synaptic Package Manager is installed, check for previously installed TeXLive packages. If you find find, then mark them for complete removal and uninstall them by clicking the Apply button.

Synaptic Package Manager

The remainder of this article is afresh installation of TeXLive 2010. For newer systems or updated versions of TeXLive please refer to Prof. McLean’s comment below for the required changes.

• Download the TeXLive 2010 iso image here.

• Once downloaded, mount the iso in some folder, say /media/iso

sudo mkdir /media/iso
sudo mount -o loop /home/milind/Downloads/TeXLive2010.iso /media/iso

• Now start installation.

cd /media/iso
sudo ./install-tl

• Once the installation is complete set the MANPATH, INFOPATH and most importantly the PATH variables along with the MANPATH mapping.

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

• Add the following lines to the end of the file as shown in the following figure.

MANPATH=$MANPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man
export MANPATH
INFOPATH=$INFOPATH:/usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/info
export INFOPATH
PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux
export PATH

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc

• Finally the MANPATH mapping

sudo gedit /etc/manpath.config

• Find the section having # set up PATH to MANPATH mapping. At the end of this section add the following line.

MANPATH_MAP    /usr/local/texlive/2010/bin/i386-linux    /usr/local/texlive/2010/texmf/doc/man 

sudo gedit /etc/manpath.config

Now that the MANPATH mapping is done we can close the gedit window. As a good practice the mounted ISO is unmounted as follows.

cd ~
sudo umount /media/iso

Now restart your system and this sets up TeXLive 2010 in your Ubuntu system. Lets test if it works.

Here’s a sample.tex file.

%sample.tex
\documentclass[]{report}

\title{Title of my document}
\author{Name of the author}
\date{\today}

\begin{document}

\maketitle
\tableofcontents

\chapter{First chapter}
My document starts here.

\section{First Section}
Some text here, also a few articles \cite{latexbook} \cite{btxdoc} that I want to cite.

\subsection{Subsection1}
More text.

\subsubsection{Subsubsection1}
More and more text.

\bibliographystyle{IEEEtran}
\bibliography{sampleref}
\nocite{*}

\end{document}

A sampleref.bib file having a few references in the bibtex format

%sampleref.bib
@MISC{primes,
   author = "Charles Louis Xavier Joseph de la Vall{\'e}e Poussin",
   note = "A strong form of the prime number theorem, 19th century",
   year = 1879
   }

@BOOK{texbook,
   author = "Donald E. Knuth",
   title= "The {{\TeX}book}",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1984
   }

@BOOK{latexbook,
   author = "Leslie Lamport",
   title = "{\LaTeX \rm:} {A} Document Preparation System",
   publisher = "Addison-Wesley",
   year = 1986
   }

@UNPUBLISHED{btxdoc,
   author = "Oren Patashnik",
   title = "{Using BibTeX}",
   note = "Documentation for general BibTeX users",
   month = jan,
   year = 1988
   }

@BOOK{strunk,
   author = "Strunk, Jr., William and E. B. White",
   title = "The Elements of Style",
   publisher = "Macmillan",
   edition = "Third",
   year = 1979
   }

@UNPUBLISHED{btxhak,
   author = "Patashnik Oren",
   title = "Designing BibTeX Styles",
   note = "The part of BibTeX's documentation
                            that's not meant for general users",
   month = jan,
   year = 1988
   }

@book{vanleunen,
   title = "A Handbook for Scholars",
   author = "Mary-Claire van Leunen",
   publisher = "Knopf",
   year = "1979"
   }

@ARTICLE{Zurek:1993,
   AUTHOR  = {Zurek, R. W. and Martin, L. J.},
   TITLE   = {Interannual Variability of planet-encircling dust activity on {M}ars},  
   YEAR    = {1993},
   JOURNAL = {jgr},
   VOLUME  = {98},
   NUMBER  = {E2},
   PAGES   = {3247--3259}
}

@Article{Narendra_1990,
  author =       {K.S.Narendra and K.Parthsarathy},
  title =        {Identification and Control of Dynamical System
                  using Neural Networks},
  journal =      "IEENN",
  year =         {1990},
  volume =    {1},
  number =    {1},
  month =     {},
  pages =     {4-27},
  note =      {},
  annote =    {}
}

I am having these two files in /home/milind/Desktop/Sample \TeX/ folder. Here’s what we do in the terminal.

cd /home/milind/Desktop/Sample\ TeX/
latex sample.tex
latex sample.tex
bibtex sample.aux
bibtex sample.aux
latex sample.tex
latex sample.tex
latex sample.tex
latex sample.tex
dvips sample.dvi -o sample.ps
ps2pdf sample.ps

And here is what we get!!!

sample.pdf

That’s all folks 🙂

Synaptic Package Manager

sudo gedit ~/.bashrc

sudo gedit /etc/manpath.config

sudo gedit /etc/bash.bashrc