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Installation LaTeX

Base Install

Linux

Package > Archives Disk Space
texlive‑latex‑base 59 MB 216 MB
texlive‑latex‑recommended 74 MB 248 MB
texlive‑pictures 83 MB 277 MB
texlive‑fonts‑recommended 83 MB 281 MB
texlive 98 MB 314 MB
texlive‑plain‑generic 82 MB > 261 MB
texlive‑latex‑extra 144 MB 452 MB
texlive‑full 2804 MB 5358 MB

see also Tex StackExchange

texlive-latex-extra
   |   |   :   :
+-----------------+   |   :   :..................
|                     |   :                     :
v                     |   :                     v
texlive-pictures             |   :           texlive-plain-generic
|                     |   :
|    +----------------+   :...............
|    |                                   :
|    |              texlive              :
|    |               | | |               :
|    |    +----------+ | +----------+    :
|    |    |            |            |    :
v    v    v            |            v    v
texlive-latex-recommended     |  texlive-fonts-recommended
|            |            :
|            |            v
|            |           tipa
|            |            |
+----------+ | +----------+
      | | |
      v v v
texlive-latex-base

sudo apt-get install texlive-latex-extra

Windows

  • Install MikTeX - https://miktex.org/download
  • MikTeX Packages
  • minted 
    pip install pygments
    add Python Scripts to PATH Environment Variable. %USERPROFILE%\AppData\Local\Continuum\anaconda3\Scripts\
  • Install TeXstudio
  • TexStudio
  • Options => Configure TeXstudio => Commands => add Interpreter Flag -shell-escape
    • enable line numbers
    • enable white spaces
  • Install Inkscape
  • Inkscape

Manual Package install

For manual installing *.sty Packages and *.cls Class files.

Tip

For every package create a separate folder

Manual Package Linux

  • Find TEXMFHOME directory 
    kpsewhich -var-value TEXMFHOME
  • Navigate to $(TEXMFHOME)/tex/latex
  • Copy paste your *.sty and *.cls
  • Update Package index 
    texhash

Manual Package Windows

  • Open MikTeX Console and go to Settings -> Directories
  • The Config,Install and User folder is the location of your Packages: %USERPROFILES%/AppData/Roaming/MikTeX/2.9/
  • Inside you have to navigate to tex/latex/ folder
  • %USERPROFILES%/AppData/Roaming/MikTeX/2.9/tex/latex/
  • Copy paste your *.sty and *.cls
  • Update Package index 
    texhash