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How do you set up Anki to use Latex equations on its cards? I would love to be able to use Anki cards to review maths definitions, theorems, proofs etc.

I really hope someone in this community knows how to achieve this. I have scoured the Internet to no avail, but I cannot find any good guides on setting this up.

Here is the Anki app

Here are some things I have tried to decipher:

http://www.hyperbolics.caths.cam.ac.uk/links/latexankisetup.php
http://www2.math.uni-wuppertal.de/~zibrowiu/LatexNoteImporter/

The answer should include how Latex is set-up within the Anki app itself, as well as any Latex set-up that is purely Latex specific (if any).

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  • What is Anki? Can you provide a link or a more detailed example?
    – Rmano
    Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 10:27
  • apps.ubuntu.com/cat/applications/precise/anki and ankisrs.net . It is a flash card program.
    – JasoonS
    Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 14:41
  • The link you gave claims that Anki can do this. What have you tried and how did it fail? Did you read the relevant documentation?
    – terdon
    Commented Sep 3, 2015 at 19:16
  • I know. Basically you need to get Anki to 'understand' latex. It is not the writing of the latex that is a problem. I hope I don't seem like I am just being lazy here, but genuinely I have been unsuccessful at finding the way to do this. I haven't found documentation with clear instructions.
    – JasoonS
    Commented Sep 5, 2015 at 21:33

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  1. Install LaTeX

    • TeX Live: Essential programs and files support in your system

      sudo apt-get install texlive-base

    or

    • TeX Live: metapackage pulling in all components of TeX Live

      sudo apt-get install texlive-full

  2. Start Anki

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  3. Create a deck

    Click the button Create Deck in the lower part of the main window and create a deck, in my example Math

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  4. Click the field Add below the menu bar…

    …and add some LaTeX, eg

    Does the sum below converge?

[latex]\begin{displaymath}\sum_{k = 1}^{\infty}\frac{1}{k}\end{displaymath}[/latex]

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    and click Add and Close

  5. Click the entry Math

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    and you will see this

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  6. Click Study Now…

    …and you have your LaTeX

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Source and more information here

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    For me, on Ubuntu 16.04, it was enough to install texlive-base and dvipng: sudo apt-get install texlive-base dvipng (dvipng is installed automatically with the texlive-full package, but this is way larger that texlive-base)
    – mlovic
    Commented Apr 22, 2018 at 11:43
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    I've tried the above above but it does not work for me. For some reason I get the following error: Error executing latex. Generated file: /tmp/anki_temp/tmp.tex Have you installed latex and dvipng? My system is Ubuntu 14.04 LTS
    – Geosphere
    Commented Aug 5, 2018 at 13:19
  • I managed to find a solution. This thread has been useful ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=2240255, in particular sudo fmtutil-sys --all command which installed pdflatex.fmt. Now it's working.
    – Geosphere
    Commented Aug 5, 2018 at 13:38
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    Geosphere's fmtutil-sys didn't work for me. What worked for me on Ubuntu 18.04 was to apt install texlive-latex-recommended dvipng (base wasn't enough, but recommended was).
    – labyrinth
    Commented Mar 23, 2020 at 16:20

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