I am using TexLive 2015 and I would like to move on to 2016 or even better 2017.
I read on internet that uninstalling and doing a fresh install is a better idea than upgrading TexLive, is it true?
Anyways I started looking for the ways to see how I can uninsntall TexLive from my ubuntu 16.04 LTS (64 bit) and I found this:
Open the link
I had installed Texlive using terminal so the path is \usr\share\texlive
and not \usr\local\texlive
as suggested in the above link.
My question is to uninstall TexLive, is it necessary to go through all those steps?
If yes, the only change I need to make in those commands is changing the path from \usr\local\texlive
to \usr\share\texlive
or I should change something more?
Thanks
1 Answer
Well as it turns out, to do the job of removing TexLive, one simply needs to:
sudo apt-get purge texlive-*
sudo apt-get autoremove
sudo apt-get autoclean
As suggested here
That's all!
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That was enough to do a TinyTeX install without running into any errors, on Ubuntu 18.04. Cheers!– straguOct 25, 2018 at 2:46
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apt
orapt-get
orcustom build
note all are via terminal!dpkg-query -L testlive
to determine the files to removewhereis textlive
so we know what files will be removed and adapt that link answerwhereis texlive
:\usr\share\texlive
, as mentioned earlier. So now i just need to follow the instruction in the link using the path of my own?