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I've recently downloaded and installed texlive2020 Image file with mounting .iso and running this command: sudo perl install-tl and it's working very well.

Now I wanted to install an editor like Texstudio or Gummi from repositories. So I used:

sudo apt install Texstudio

But it says it's going to install some new packages including texlive-xetex.Many people suggest don't install both .iso and repositories texlive since it cause problems. Is there a way to install a TeX editors without installing texlive again?

mokazemi
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  • Create a dummy texlive. There are samples around. – Johannes_B Aug 11 '20 at 13:32
  • For ubuntu I can recommend this script which will (even if the github page doesn't say it yet) install texlive 2020: https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu – phil-elkabat Aug 11 '20 at 13:47
  • @phil-elkabat But as I said, I have installed Texlive and there's no problem with it. The problem is every editor in ubuntu wants to install it again! – mokazemi Aug 11 '20 at 14:00
  • AUCTeX / Emacs don't wants to install any texlive package and is probably the most customisable editor. – gigiair Aug 11 '20 at 14:47
  • I have gone through the same situation as you, installed TeXworks with some latex-related packages after installing TeXlive over internet. For me, I have simply done sudo apt autoremove and got rid of the not-anymore-needed packages. You can also try to remove those packages manually ... – Tomáš Kruliš Aug 12 '20 at 07:01
  • I simply used sudo apt install --no-install-recommends gummi and it worked! – mokazemi Aug 13 '20 at 06:20

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You have to tell Ubuntu that texlive is already installed.

There is a German guide here. I've taken the liberty to translate it.

First you install the following packages:

sudo apt install tex-common texinfo equivs perl-tk perl-doc freeglut3

Then you'll have to execute the following commands (create a folder in tmp called tl-quivs and then change to the newly created directory):

sudo mkdir /tmp/tl-equivs
cd /tmp/tl-equivs

Next you'll download a fitting equivs-file debian-equivs-2020-ex.txt and place it inside /tmp/tl-equivs. You can use the terminal if you like:

wget https://www.tug.org/texlive/files/debian-equivs-2020-ex.txt

Now you build and install the package:

sudo equivs-build debian-equivs-2020-ex.txt
sudo dpkg -i texlive-local_*_all.deb

This should do it.

phil-elkabat
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  • Is it like an empty .deb file which fools ubuntu to consider texlive is installed? – mokazemi Aug 11 '20 at 14:23
  • @MohammadKazemi, yes, pretty much. The script (https://github.com/scottkosty/install-tl-ubuntu) I've recommended takes care of all of this for you. It is really convenient. Maybe you'll use it next year for texlive 2021. – phil-elkabat Aug 11 '20 at 14:26
  • Is there any reason to install from .iso ? I've just heard it's better than installing from apt repositories. Are there different? – mokazemi Aug 11 '20 at 14:44
  • @MohammadKazemi, you get newer packages and you can keep your distribution up to date. Ubuntu 20.04 is still on texlive 2019.20200218-1 and will probably stay there for quite a while. If you don't have special needs and only use the standard packages, the difference is rather marginal, I'd say. You can check out which version ubuntu ships here: https://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=texlive – phil-elkabat Aug 11 '20 at 14:50
  • Our go-to guide https://tex.stackexchange.com/q/1092/35864 also has something about this under Fake packages. https://www.tug.org/texlive/debian.html has something under Integrating vanilla TeX Live with Debian. – moewe Aug 11 '20 at 15:55
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I simply used sudo apt install --no-install-recommends gummi so it didn't installed Texlive package.

Since it's a recommended packages, not a dependency.

mokazemi
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  • Generally it is a good idea to build and install the dummy package just in case you forget later on. There are soo many questions on the site where it turned out that the user had two different LaTeX installations and since they chose a suboptimal way to add the upstream TL to the PATH, their editor ends up using the wrong installation. – daleif Aug 13 '20 at 08:42
  • @daleif Yes, you're right. But this command just installed Gummi without installing any tex-related packages. it was less than 1Mb. you can check all depended packages here, which Texlive is mentioned as a recommend. – mokazemi Aug 13 '20 at 09:51
  • this did not work on fedora – Freeman Nov 21 '22 at 11:17