TeX Live is a large distribution of LaTeX. BasicTeX is a subset of TeX Live for users who do not want to download the full TeX Live. Is there any equivalent of BasicTeX in Ubuntu?
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TeX Live is divided into several packages in Ubuntu. If you don't want the whole thing (and indeed most users don't need the whole thing), install texlive-base , which is similar in size to BasicTeX. You may want to install texlive-latex-recommended
and texlive-fonts-recommended
as well as support for the language(s) you write in (texlive-lang-…).
answered Sep 21, 2013 at 22:11
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