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ATMathew
Asked: 2011-04-15 17:01:16 +0800 CST

How to uninstall Latex?

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Ubuntu and Latex newbie here. Very basic question I have.

I recently installed Latex using the following code:

sudo apt-get install texlive

However, I want to uninstall this and just get the latex base for now.

I tried the following but it doesn't work:

sudo apt-get remove texlive

dpkg --get-selections | grep tex shows that a number of latex related files are installed.

How do I remove texlive?

uninstall

4 Answers

  1. sudo apt-get remove tex-common resolved the problem for me.

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  2. Best Answer

    Many other dependencies also got in when you ran sudo apt-get install texlive. When you ran the apt-get remove command, then only the texlive package was uninstalled, not its dependencies.

    You can easily remove these extra unneeded dependencies by running:

    sudo apt-get autoremove
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  3. sudo apt-get remove texlive
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get remove tex-common

    Then download and install directly from TUG. You can choose your operating system there. This has a bunch of packages and is much more complete than other distributions. Much better than sudo apt-get install latex.

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  4. This removes all latex packages:

    sudo apt-get purge --auto-remove texlive*
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