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I have found many different Q/A regarding installation of various versions of TeXlive and uninstalling (like this one). To be honest, I might have be a bit lazy.. Will see.

To my best knowledge I am running Ubuntu 14.04.4 LTS and I have installed TeXlive 2013, tex --version gives me TeX 3.1415926 (TeX Live 2013/Debian).... I had troubles running the package leadsheets and found some issue thread, that TeXlive 2013 might be missing some features, the exact error is

E: /home/quapka/Development/ZpevnikMladez/tex_songs/template.tex:60 "kernel/command-not-defined"! Control sequence \prop_item:Nn undefined. ...ate_variant:Nn \prop_item:Nn { NV }

Anyway, I decided to install 2015. But I was lazy and just followed this guide . But did not do the clean up (since this was the first time I was installing TL2015), but I also did not do anything about the previous version (2013). So, after downloading and running sudo ./install-tl I hoped I was done, obviously not. After quick search I've updated PATH, like anywhere I could. I am using zsh, soo, I changed PATH in /etc/environment, ~/.zshrc, ~/.profile. Obviously, running pdflatex outputs This is pdfTeX, Version 3.1415926-2.5-1.40.14 (TeX Live 2013/Debian) and not 2015 version.

It seems 2015 is installed correctly, at least /usr/local/texlive/bin/2015/bin/x86_64-linux/pdflatex outputs This is pdfTeX, Version 3.14159265-2.6-1.40.16 (TeX Live 2015) (preloaded format=pdflatex) , so hey, it's something. Last note, TL 2013 is not in /usr/local/texlive/bin/2013/.. the only thing I could find is in /usr/share/texlive/ (with release notes for 2013 version. In desperate move (it already took me two days, since I lost connection installing TL2015 yesterday) I ran sudo apt-get remove texlive, something was removed but not what I hoped.

My question here is. How to switch to 2015 version? What should I uninstall (or, I worry, uninstall, remove, remove more, install..).

Disclaimer: I know I should be more careful and etc. But I got used to simply run sudo apt-get install/update/upgrade whenever I need to install/update/upgrade something, but all this work because of one package stopped me from being reasonable. If this is dupe of some sort I am happy to delete it and educate myself elsewhere. Thanks!

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  • This is the question you need: http://tex.stackexchange.com/questions/1092/how-to-install-vanilla-texlive-on-debian-or-ubuntu. – cfr Apr 10 '16 at 19:02
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    Thanks, I am following the most up-voted answer. Currently I am stuck though, which tex does not give me /opt/texbin as supposed. Still thanks. – quapka Apr 10 '16 at 20:56
  • @cfr I am puzzled since I can't find TeXlive 2013 anywhere. Definitely not in /usr/loca/texlive/bin. In /usr/bin there are still binaries for 2013, I am confused.. Probably delete this Q and comment under some A in the link? – quapka Apr 10 '16 at 21:24
  • Those instructions are for uninstalling if you've installed upstream into /opt or /usr/loacal etc. You need to use your package manager to remove Ubuntu's packages. Using apt or whatever you normally use. – cfr Apr 11 '16 at 00:13

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